January 20, 2004 CareWorks reaccreditation story highlighted in URAC's national newsletter

CareWorks kicked off its URAC Case Management reaccreditation with a company wide awareness campaign entitled “Blast Off to Reaccreditation.”

The theme served as a daily reminder of CareWorks’ goal of being compliant with URAC’s national Case Management Standards and progress towards reaccreditation with the new version 2.0 standards.

Upon completion of the desktop review and just prior to the URAC onsite, CareWorks completed the final countdown for the reaccreditation process with a URAC Picture Day on August 26, 2003, including the actual “blast-off” of toy rockets to symbolically acknowledge their preparedness.

“Incorporating industry best practices and standards for case management strengthens the services Care Works provides as a company and requires the commitment of each and every CareWorks associate,” said William W. Pfeiffer, president and CEO. “This was a great way to celebrate our success!”

CareWorks is the Midwest’s leader in workers’ compensation medical management delivering the highest quality, URAC-accredited medical management services available to more than 80,000 employer customers.

Today, CareWorks medically manages more than half a billion dollars in workers’ compensation premiums and continually strives to deliver customer service that exceeds customer expectations. CareWorks was first accredited for Case Management in September 2001 and successfully reaccredited in September 2003.

Case management services are one of the fastest growing are as in health care and are used in a variety of health care settings. Case management allows health care organizations to better serve patients’ needs in a more dynamic way by coordinating care across the continuum of health care needs and settings.

URAC’s Case Management Standards establish a set of guidelines and protocols aimed specifically at the rapidly evolving field of case management, particularly in health and workers’ compensation settings.

For more information on CareWorks, visit www.careworks.com. For more information on URAC, visit www.urac.org.