title: The Minnesota Health Partnership and Coordinated Health Care and Disability Prevention: the implementation of an integrated benefits and medical care model.
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.
authors.affiliation: Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Michael P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: McGrail
authors.forename: Marilou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calasanz
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Christianson
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cortez
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dowd
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gorman
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lohman
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Radosevich
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Westman
mesh_terms: D016832:Employment, Supported; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008910:Minnesota; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000458:organization & administration*