Assisting clients through the rehabilitation process and assuring effective and efficient medical/rehabilitation service delivery, with time target goals and appropriate communication between all health professionals.

REHABILITATION AND MEDICAL CASE MANAGEMENT:
Review individual files and manage Early Intervention Programs, performing intake interviews to determine needs. Facilitating the rehabilitation process with the client’s involvement to ensure time specific and targeted goals are reached. Develop ongoing communication between all Healthcare Professionals, Specialists, Employer, Employee and Unions, being sensitive to all stakeholder issues.

CATASTROPHIC CASE MANAGEMENT (Adult and Paediatric):
Acquired Brain Injury, Spinal Cord, Multiple Orthopaedic trauma. Working closely with existing Trauma programs from our major city centres, managing the file to provide the continuity from the city to the rural community. Developing appropriate strategies and a team approach with Healthcare Professionals to provide ongoing care and rehabilitative success in a rural or urban setting.

LIFE CARE PLAN (FUTURE CARE COST ANALYSIS):
A Life Care Plan is a medical legal document that is used to predict probable future medical and rehabilitation needs and costs. In most cases, a Life Care Planner is certified by the Canadian Institute of Life Care Planners and the plan assists to set aside adequate reserves for future costs or to negotiate settlement.

SOCIAL WORK
Our focus is to provide expert clinical social work intervention for individuals, couples and/or families who are suffering emotional distress related to injuries including traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, neuro-muscular disorders and chronic pain. Therapeutic counselling and psycho-social assessment services are provided. Counseling is aimed at increasing the client's understanding of the injuries, treatment and the impact on self and family, conducts intervention to help in adjustment and identifies goals that will assist the client and family in reaching maximum emotional, interpersonal and or social functioning. The focus is on accepting change and creating an awareness of coping mechanisms and to help the client mobilize their personal and interpersonal resources in order to facilitate recovery.

FACILITATING RETURN TO WORK PROGRAMS:
Return to Work Programs are a very specific component of Disability Management. Through defining a Return to Work Program, a specific set of goals and objectives are outlined to assist the Employee with both occupation and non-occupational related injuries and illnesses that will effectively and efficiently return this individual back to a productive position in a Return to Work Program. As part of a Return to Work Program, Disability Management is important to success, as well as overseeing Rehabilitation and Medical Intervention to coordinate the return to regular or modified duties. Please refer to the Return to Work Programs outline for services available in this area.

TREATMENT PLAN COORDINATION:
Creating Individual Written Rehabilitation Plans and providing appropriate monitoring, feedback and follow up. Facilitating Team Meetings and ongoing communication.

DISCHARGE PLANNING TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES:
In the rural communities, services need to be carefully coordinated and an appropriate knowledge of the area is key. Existing relationships are established that can assist in appropriate transition to a rural home community.

TASK ASSIGNMENTS:
Job Site Analysis, Physical Demands Analysis., Medical Information Review, Insurer Examination Follow Up or Life Care Planning can be conducted by a C.C.R.C., Kinesiologist, Occupational Therapist, Registered Nurse, Physiotherapist, Social Worker.