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The Tangle of Coordinated Health Care

on Mon, 2015-04-13 17:26   caroline

Who coordinates the coordinators?

More specifically, who coordinates the proliferating number of health care helpers variously known as case managers, care managers, care coordinators, patient navigators or facilitators, health coaches or even — here’s a new one — “pathfinders”?

Rachel Schwartz, a licensed clinical social worker for close to 20 years, came face to face with this quandary earlier this month. Employed by a home care agency in Virginia, she visited a woman in her late 70s who had recently come home from the hospital.

Story Date: 
April 13, 2015
News Author: 
Paula Span
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/health/the-tangle-of-coordinated-health-care.html?_r=0