Coordinated health and human services delivery system and process

Abstract

A system (200) and method (500) is provided for a coordinated health care service delivery program. The method can include providing services to clients at high risk for chronic disease including co-morbidities and consequent disabilities associated with the chronic disease, linking community and vocational services (130) for facilitating community inclusion to supplement fundamental clinical and economic goals, creating a comprehensive and dynamic individual development plan (222) to involve the client and family members as active program team members for stressing client-centric collaborative goal setting, and applying action learning (226) to promote behavior modification and lifestyle change.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 654,932, filed Feb. 23, 2005, entitled “Coordinated Health and Human Services Management Network”, by Jay E. Yourist, Karl J. Krieger, Robert L. Dilworth, and Zuhair Latif, which is hereby incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The embodiments of the invention herein relate to management systems, and more particularly a method of health and human services delivery. DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART [0003] The management practices of the healthcare system evolved in response to the high incidences of acute illnesses. However, over the last fifty years the prevalence of chronic illness has risen significantly. Chronic disease is a leading cause of disability and consequently unemployment for special needs populations including the elderly and disabled. Indirect non-clinical care costs frequently associated with disability, dependency, and joblessness are h...

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