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Case management is the coordination of community-based services by a professional or team to provide quality mental health care customized accordingly to individual patients' setbacks or persistent challenges and aid them to their recovery.
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. [1] ACT teams serve individuals who have been diagnosed with serious and persistent forms of mental illness, predominantly but not exclusively the schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
The Case Management process encompasses communication and facilitates care along a continuum through effective resource coordination. The goals of Case Management include the achievement of optimal health, access to care and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient's right to self determination.
Case management (mental health), a specific approach for the coordination of community mental health services; Case management (US health system), a specific term used in the health care system of the United States of America; Medical case management, a general term referring to the facilitation of treatment plans to assure the appropriate ...
Medical case management may include, but is not limited to, care assessment, including personal interview with the injured employee, and assistance in developing, implementing and coordinating a medical care plan with health care providers, as well as the employee and his/her family and evaluation of treatment results.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
[9] [page needed] In 1986 Congress passed the Mental Health Planning Act of 1986, which was a Federal law requiring that at the state government level, all states must have plans for establishing case management under Medicaid, improving mental health coverage of community mental health services, adding rehabilitative services, and expanding ...
An administrative law judge with the Colorado State Personnel Board ruled Thursday that a manager in the nursing department at the Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Pueblo violated the state’s ...