About Us
Discovery Life Care Planning & Vocational Rehabilitation, LLC
Our predecessor, Dr. Paul M. Deutsch began the practice of Life Care Planning and is widely known as the “Father of Life Care Planning.” This private practice, now known as Discovery Life Care Planning & Vocational Rehabilitation, LLC has continued its practice uninterrupted since, providing a range of consulting and rehabilitation services.
Life Care Planning
While maintaining a private practice in rehabilitation counseling and mental health counseling for persons with disabilities, our predecessor, Dr. Deutsch also began researching the basic concepts of life care planning in the mid 1970’s. He was the first to establish the basic standards, principles, tenets and methodologies of life care planning and was the first to publish on life care planning in the 1981 text, Damages in Tort Actions, published by Matthew Bender. Volumes 9 and 10 of this text (now volumes 9, 10, and 11 as published by Lexus Nexus, 2005) were edited by Drs. Paul Deutsch and Frederick Raffa. The specialty of life care planning was later extended to the medical and health-related professions in 1985 with the release of the text, A Guide to Rehabilitation, published by Mathew Bender.
Research
Research efforts have continued to focus on developing and refining the reliability and validity of the life care planning process. In recent years this focus has been on improving the manner in which the case management, medical, and psychological foundations for the plan are established. For example, more effective use of the medical records improved steps in documenting work with the medical and health-related professional treatment team. Use of clinical practice guidelines, research literature, and effective collaboration with consulting physicians are all used to document recommendations while establishing the necessary foundation for the life care plan.