Welcome to all of the new people who have joined our list-serv in the last couple of days. Some of you are occupational medicine physicians/clinicians, and some of you are from organizations in

Jennifer, this is a very generous use of your time. I’m not sure that the arrows at the bottom on the right are clear – dollars going both ways from benefits payers to COHE. I wonder if it

I’ve pasted the diagram right into this email (see below) just in case you don’t receive attachments. If you would like a copy of this Powerpoint diagram, send me a note. I forgot to say

Just in case a picture IS worth a thousand words, I played with Powerpoint tonight. The goal was to diagram a structure for the RETAIN service at the community level. This picture presumes that

Dear Fellow RETAIN Participants: I am an occupational medicine physician who is excited about the potential impact the RETAIN endeavor can have. So, I am eager to partner with any entity that shares

Thank you. Unless we see the many pieces as a integrated system the outcomes will not improve. (Ref: W Edwards Deming) Rick Denning Shelter Island Risk Services New York

One state asked me to describe the role of the state workforce agency, so I started imagining it. This is what I see: (I did not re-review the RFP/FOA before writing this, and you DEFINITELY should

To those of you who wrote me worried notes: I apologize for causing confusion/misunderstanding. I am NOT recommending we “medicalize” disability. I AM pointing out the reality that in order

My two colleagues and I have briefly discussed the idea and decided to recommend AGAINST the 8 states in Phase I of RETAIN trying to share an IT system for capturing data and supporting project

A state asked for my advice about who the RTW coordinators should work for and what kind of professional backgrounds they should have. Here are my observations and professional opinions on the

Occupational medicine physicians and other healthcare professionals with expertise in the SAW/RTW process are now joining our RETAINers list-serv. And we now have hashtags for 17 states. One way

Found a potentially useful article that you may find helpful in designing your RETAIN project / writing your proposal. It concerns identifying cases at risk for eventual entry onto SSDI in

What a DELIGHT to hear that some of you are now starting to move into the program design and proposal writing phase! Here are some musings and some personal advice that I hope will help you think

This copy just opened fine for me just now. Sorry for any inconvenience if it didn’t open for you earlier. Jennifer

In listening to the medical society representative on a RETAIN planning group today, I remembered how important it will be for the COHE-equivalent organizations set up by each RETAIN project to

Thanks, Jennifer. We will try to get those distributed.

Thank you Mary Ellen O’Brien Wright Senior Manager, Working Healthy KDHE/Division of Health Care Finance 900 SW Jackson Suite 900N Topeka, KS 66402 Phone: (785) 296-5217 Fax: (785)

The Department of Industrial Accidents (workers’ comp for MA) cannot serve as the lead agency in this grant because DIA does not have an internal infrastructure/personnel to write and manage

See below. ODEP has now provided thoroughly considered responses to some questions that were posed but not definitively answered during the first teleconference. The questions concern: Whether VR