The board certified life care planners in Missouri at Physician Life Care Planning provide life care plans for ill and injured Missourian, in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Independence, Lee’s Summit, O’Fallon, St. Joseph, St. Charles, Blue Springs, St. Peters, Florissant, Joplin, Chesterfield, Wentzville, Jefferson City, Cape Girardeau, Windwood, University City, Ballwin, Liberty, Raytown, Kirkwood, Maryland Heights, Gladstone, and throughout the State of Missouri.
Qualifications of our Missouri Certified Life Care Planners
Our life care planners in Missouri are practicing physicians who are board certified in physical medicine & rehabilitation, a medical specialty that has long been recognized as uniquely qualified to provide a strong medical foundation for life care plans. Some of our life care planners who formulate Missouri life care plans are also board certified in additional medical specialties, electrodiagnostic medicine, pediatrics and pediatric rehabilitation medicine, and maintain Certified Life Care Planners (CLCP™) Certification, as designated by the International Commission on Health Care Certification.
Our planners are also certified and/or licensed by the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the American Board of Pediatrics, the Missouri Board of Medicine, the Arkansas Board of Medicine, the Illinois Board of Medicine, the Kentucky Board of Medicine, the California Medical Association, and the National Board of Medical Examiners.
We are highly experienced medical professionals who have maintained numerous clinical appointments, executive appointments, and medical directorships at leading medical facilities including the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, the Center for Performance Medicine & Rehabilitation in Chesterfield, St. Luke’s Hospital, PMR Consultants in Chesterfield, the St. Louis Marathon, Breakthrough Pain Relief Clinics in St. Louis, Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, COPE Preceptor in St. Louis, Washington University Department of Pediatrics in St. Louis, the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock, and the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Our physicians are also prolific presenters and lectures on topics of life care planning and clinical topics related to the impairments, disabilities, symptoms and future medical requirements of injured individuals in Missouri who require life care plans, including pediatrics, brain injury, spinal cord injury, angina, atlano-occipital dissociation, burns, spinal fractures, conversion paralysis, therapeutic electrical reactivation, and orthopedic injury.
Our board certified life care planners who serve Missouri maintain active medical licenses, and they are associated with a variety of national and Missouri medical and professional associations and societies, including the North American Spine Society, Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the American Board of Pediatrics, The American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Missouri Medical Association, the Illinois Medical Association, the Kentucky Medical Association, the Arkansas Medical Association, the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the International Commission on Health Care Certification.
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Our Missouri care planners have also received medical training and education at some of the country’s leading universities, colleges, and medical facilities, including the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Irvine, the American Academy of physical medicine & rehabilitation, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic, the University of Arkansas Medical Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, the University of California, Davis Medical Campus in Sacramento, and the University of Kentucky, A.B. Chandler Medical Center.
What Types of Medical Treatment are Included in Missouri Life Care Plans
The American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners categorizes Future Medical Recommendations according to the following structure:
- Physician Services
- Routine Diagnostics
- Medications
- Laboratory Studies
- Rehabilitation Services
- Equipment & Supplies
- Nursing & Attendant Care
- Environmental Modifications & Essential Services
- Acute Care Services
Common Causes of Injuries in Missouri that Require Life Care Plans
Common causes of injuries in Missouri that require life care plans include animal attack injuries, assault-related Injuries, aviation injuries, drug & medical injuries, industrial injuries, occupational injuries, oilfield injuries, plant & refinery injuries, railroad injuries, and truck & automobile injuries.
We’ve helped ill and injured Missourian by providing life care planning services that address cerebral palsy, major burns, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, acquired brain injuries, burns, amputations, mild traumatic brain injury, birth injuries, major joint injuries, multiple trauma, orthopedic trauma injuries, chronic pain injuries, and spinal injuries.
What are the Three Basic Questions of Life Care Planning?
According to the published, peer-reviewed tenets, methods and best practices advocated by the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners, the basic questions of life care planning are:
- What is a subject’s diagnostic condition?
- What medically-related goods and services does a subject’s diagnostic conditions require?
- How much will the medically-related goods and services cost over time?
What are the Clinical Objectives of a Life Care Plan?
According to the published, peer-reviewed tenets, methods and best practices advocated by the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners, the clinical objectives of life care planning are:
- Diminish or eliminate physical and psychological pain and suffering.
- Reach and maintain the highest level of function given an individual’s unique circumstance.
- Prevent complications to which an individual’s unique physical and mental conditions predispose them.
- Afford the individual the best possible quality of life in light of their condition.
The Methodology Used by our Certified Physician Life Care Planners in Missouri
The tenets, methods and best practices of the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners was first published in 2017 in A Physician’s Guide to Life Care Planning: Tenets, Methods, and Best Practices for Physician Life Care Planners.
This published, regularly employed peer-reviewed methodology is widely accepted within the discipline of life care planning; and it has been reliably employed in thousands of state and federal court cases throughout the United States.
Training in the methodology advocated by the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners has been peer-reviewed by the International Commission on Health Care Certification (ICHCC), the certifying body which governs the Certified Life Care Planning Certification (CLCP™), the oldest and most widely held certification in the field of life care planning. Additionally, the ICHCC peer-reviews and accepts life care plans which employ the methodology advocated by the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners for purposes of awarding CLCP™ Certification to CLCP™ Certification Candidates. Further, the ICHCC affords ICHCC Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to CLCP™ Certification Holders who receive methodological and clinical education from the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners.
Training in the methodology advocated by the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners is reviewed and accepted by the American Medical Association (AMA), in conjunction with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio. The AMA affords its highest level Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME Credits) to licensed physicians who receive methodological and clinical training and education from the American Academy of Physician Life Care Planners.
Biographies and Curriculum Vitae for Certified Life Care Planners in Missouri
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