Coordinated care partnership: case management with physician practices.

This article describes the Coordinated Care Partnership Project, operated by The St. Joseph Healthcare System. Funded as one of several demonstration sites by The John A. Hartford Foundation, this project places social work and nurse care managers in selected primary care physician practices in Albuquerque, NM. Lessons learned from the first year of operation are presented, along with implications for the role of case management in primary care practice.