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injured worker vocational rehabilitation flow chart

What is the role of a qrc?

In Minnesota, many injured workers are entitled to Statutory Rehabilitation Services. When a worker’s total disability extends beyond 13 weeks, a Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant (QRC) is either assigned by the employer or insurer, or the injured worker may choose their own independent QRC at no cost.

A QRC plays a critical, neutral role in the workers’ compensation process. They serve as the on-site coordinator and primary point of contact for everyone involved — including the injured worker, employer, insurance company, medical providers, attorneys, and the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry’s Workers’ Compensation Division.

QRC RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Attending medical appointments and therapy sessions
Monitoring recovery progress and making recommendations
Providing clear information to all parties
Developing and managing a rehabilitation plan focused on helping the worker return to suitable, gainful employment.

HOW CAN WE ASSIST YOU?

Assess employee experience, education, and transferable skills for reemployment.
Conduct vocational testing to evaluate individual’s skills, aptitudes, and interests.
Develop comprehensive vocational rehabilitation plan.
Identify suitable employment opportunities based on skills and work restrictions.
Actively facilitate job development and placement activities.
Provide tailored job application and interview skills training.
Develop professional resume supporting key vocational goals outlined in rehabilitation plan.
Complete on-site vocational evaluation and assessment.
Educate injured workers on Minnesota workers’ compensation system.
Navigate Minnesota Department of Labor & Industry vocational statutes and rules.
Contact employers for labor market survey information.
Develop retraining plan to support vocational goals.
Provide continued encouragement and motivation to achieve stated vocational goals.
Manage and facilitate vocational communication with all appropriate parties.
Monitor ongoing developments and generate monthly progress reports.
Provide expert testimony.

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen Covey

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Adversity introduces a man to himself"

- Albert Einstein

"I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

- Helen Keller

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"

- Beverly Sills

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career."

- Carlton Fisk

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

DRIVEN TO RESTORE MINNESOTA’S INJURED WORKERS TO GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT.

What is the role of a qrc?

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES

HOW CAN WE ASSIST YOU?

Your job is our job...we work to RESTORE!

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SERVING INJURED WORKERS WITH MINNESOTA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INJURIES

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