Impact: Feature Issue on Enhancing Quality and Coordination of Health Care for Persons with Chronic Illness and/or Disabilities

2011

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Individuals with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses who have complex health care and other support needs too often must navigate complex service systems largely on their own, trying to identify and put together all the pieces of the services and supports they require. The outcome is often fragmented, with the individual or family exhausted, frustrated, and experiencing significant and even life-threatening unmet needs. However, growing numbers of individuals with complex medical and support needs are receiving health care and other human services with the assistance of care coordination programs. Though care coordination is in its infancy, the experience of these individuals and their care providers suggests that it's promising. This Impact highlights several successful care coordination programs, people whose lives have been changed by them, and system-level issues and options for further exploration by those shaping service policies and systems in our country.

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