The Minnesota Health Partnership and Coordinated Health Care and Disability Prevention: the implementation of an integrated benefits and medical care model.
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.
McGrail
Michael P
MP
Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Calasanz
Marilou
M
Christianson
Jon
J
Cortez
Cathy
C
Dowd
Bryan
B
Gorman
Robert
R
Lohman
William H
WH
Parker
David
D
Radosevich
David M
DM
Westman
Gary
G
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*