Rehabilitation Case Management

Case management is a collaborative, client-driven process for the provision of quality health and support services through the effective and efficient use of resources. Case management supports the client’s achievement of safe, realistic and reasonable goals within a complex health, social and fiscal environment. The case management process that starts with an initial comprehensive physical and functional assessment and report. Contained in the report are treatment recommendations, including regionally appropriate treatment and/or service providers.

Working closely with the physician, patient, family members and other health care professionals, the case manager looks for highly effective, outcome-based rehabilitation facilities. As treatment goals to improve health and physical functioning are reached, the focus of case management shifts to returning an individual to a productive work life where possible or appropriate. The rehabilitation case manager evaluates return-to-work potential, with a primary goal of getting disabled workers back to the same job.