The Minnesota Health Partnership and Coordinated Health Care and Disability Prevention: the implementation of an integrated benefits and medical care model Journal Article uri icon
Overview
abstract
  • In the spring of 1996, the Minnesota Health Partnership (MHP) received a demonstration grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Workers Compensation Health Initiative to pilot a model of health care that was designed to combine the best practices of general health and workers' compensation medical care. This paper outlines the genesis of the MHP, and the relationship of its Coordinated Health Care and Disability Prevention model to traditional managed care and 24-h care models. In order to effectively implement disability prevention principles within a primary care clinical setting, it is essential to increase health care provider awareness that the disability relating to a specific impairment can be positively impacted by specific clinical strategies. The basis and specifics of these strategies are also discussed. Plans for the evaluation of this model will also be described.

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    publication date
  • 2002
  • Research
    keywords
  • *Managed Care Programs
  • *Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Employment, Supported
  • Health Benefit Plans, Employee/*organization & administration
  • Minnesota
  • Models, Organizational
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Workers' Compensation/*organization & administration
  • Additional Document Info
    volume
  • 12
  • issue
  • 1