Care coordination

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	721771
Registration status:	Health, Standard 16/01/2020
Definition:	Care coordination services provide a single point of contact (via a Care Facilitator) for people (and their families/carers) with lived experience of mental illness and complex care needs. Care Facilitators will be responsible for ensuring all of the patients’ care needs, clinical and non-clinical and as determined by a nationally consistent assessment tool, are being met (Commonwealth of Australia 2012).
Context:	Mental health non-government organisation establishments service type taxonomy.

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Distinguishing features: The principal service provided is the coordination of access to a range of services required by the individual Where other support services are delivered, they are incidental to the principal care coordination role Inclusions: Care coordination Exclusions: Care coordination provided as part of delivering another service type
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Care coordination Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Mental health non-government organisation payments cluster Health, Standard 16/01/2020 Service integration infrastructure Health, Standard 16/01/2020

Glossary Item Attributes