About Case Management

Case Management

Case Management — abbreviated CM — is the Heidelberg quarterly journal for the case managers of the social and health systems, published by the medhochzwei Verlag. "Die Zeitschrift Case Management ist das Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Care und Case Management (DGCC), des Netzwerk CM Schweiz und der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Care & Case Management (ÖGCC)" — the official organ of the German, Swiss, and Austrian care- and case-management societies: the professional field's German-language voice. Four issues a year give the science and the practice: the case management's methods, the care systems' organization, the social law's interfaces — for the case managers, the executives, the teachers, and the students.

Overview

The journal serves the case-management field: the case managers in the social and health systems, the executives in hospital administration and nursing, the professional guardians (Berufsbetreuer), the municipalities, the employment agencies and job centers, the insurances, the social-service providers, the teachers and students at the universities and technical schools. The quarterly rhythm — four issues a year, 97 euros print-plus-online, 76 euros online-only — follows the professional field: the DACH societies' organ, the academies' companion, the conferences' documenter.

The editorial program bridges the science and the practice: the case management's concepts (the assessment, the planning, the implementation, the monitoring, the evaluation), the care management's systems (the networks, the steering, the quality), and the social and health law's frameworks (the SGB, the participation, the benefits). The publisher's health-system portfolio — the hospital management, the nursing management, the medical law, the psychotherapy — embeds the journal: the medhochzwei program's case-management pillar.

History

The journal entered its 19th year in 2022 — founded around 2004, in the case management's German professionalization era: the DGCC's founding (2005), the training standards, the university programs. The organ status — the German, Swiss, and Austrian societies' official journal — built the DACH readership: the field's trilingual cooperation (the German DGCC, the Swiss CM network, the Austrian ÖGCC) in one German-language title.

The editorial board — the society's professors and practitioners: Mona Frommelt (Hans-Weinberger-Akademie München), Anna Hegedüs (Berner Hochschule), Prof. Dr. Michael Klassen (Hochschule RheinMain), Prof. Dr. Thomas Klie (Institut AGP Sozialforschung), Prof. Dr. Peter Löcherbach (Kath. Hochschule Mainz), Dipl.-Psych. Michael Monzer (case-management trainer, JobCenter Stuttgart), Prof. Dr. Claus Reis (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt (Berufsakademie Stuttgart) — gives the academic-practice balance: the universities, the academies, the job centers. The Schriftleitung (V.i.S.d.P.) — Prof. Dr. Thomas Klie — and the Redaktion — Annette Xandry — carry the issues.

The publisher — the medhochzwei Verlag's profile — deserves its telling. Founded 2009 in Heidelberg, the house specializes in the health system's literature: the scientifically founded yet practically usable and readable publications for the health professionals and the interested public — the decision-makers and managers of the care facilities, the physicians, the psychotherapists, the medical professions, the institutions and branch associations. The program — the specialist books and journals (nursing management, hospital management, case management, medical law, psychotherapy, health-system functioning, health insurance, health policy, aging, dementia, mental health, healthy digital-media use) in print, e-book, online library, and mobile app; the advisory and popular-science publications (mental health, dementia, healthy digital-media use) as books, audiobooks, cartoon calendars; the educational services (professional training, webinars, study materials) via the online academy — covers the health system's knowledge needs. The podcasts — the Demenz-Podcast, the "Hörzeit – Radio wie früher" audio magazine — extend the program: the current industry information, the interviews, the expert films. The Heidelberger Forum Gesundheitsversorgung — since 2018 — gathers the experts annually: the current challenges and developments discussed.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the case manager's practice. The case management concept — the field's foundation — deserves its telling. The case management — the coordinated steering of the help process for people with complex needs — organizes the social and health systems' interfaces: the single case manager accompanying the client through the fragmented services. The phases — the outreach and intake, the assessment (the needs and resources analysis), the help planning (the goals and measures), the implementation (the service coordination), the monitoring (the progress control), and the evaluation (the outcome review) — structure the professional method. The German professionalization — the DGCC's standards, the certified training, the university programs (the Frankfurt, Mainz, Freiburg, Stuttgart, München, RheinMain, Bern professors on the board) — built the occupation: the case manager as the recognized profession. The journal documents the field's science: the concepts, the evidence, the ethics — the DACH societies' discourse. The fields coverage — the health system's case management (the hospitals, the rehabilitation, the nursing), the social system's (the youth welfare, the job centers, the participation), the guardianship's — maps the applications: the settings where case managers work. The law coverage — the social code (SGB II, IX, XII), the participation law, the benefit coordination — addresses the legal interfaces: the entitlements, the responsibilities.

The systems coverage — the care management, the network steering, the integrated care, the quality management — treats the organizational level: the case management beyond the individual case. The education coverage — the training standards, the university programs, the academies (Hans-Weinberger, Careum), the DGCC certification — serves the professionalization: the curricula, the qualifications. The DACH cooperation — the three societies' organ — deserves its telling. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Care und Case Management (DGCC) — the German society, founded 2005 — sets the standards: the training curricula, the certification, the guidelines (the 2026 third edition of the "Leitlinien Care und Case Management," published by medhochzwei in the "Case Management in der Praxis" series). The Netzwerk CM Schweiz — the Swiss network (Anna Hegedüs, Berner Hochschule/Careum) — and the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Care & Case Management (ÖGCC) — the Austrian society — extend the organ: the three countries' case-management communities in one journal. The DACH comparison — the health and social systems' differences (the German SGB, the Swiss cantons, the Austrian federalism) — enriches the discourse: the methods' transfer, the systems' learning. The journal as the organ — the societies' official voice — carries the field's identity: the conferences, the guidelines, the debates — the German-language case management's home.

Organization and Ownership

Case Management is published by the medhochzwei Verlag GmbH, Alte Eppelheimer Str. 42/1, D-69115 Heidelberg, telephone (0 62 21) 91496-0, email info@medhochzwei-verlag.de, web medhochzwei-verlag.de. The managing director is Julia Rondot. The editors — Mona Frommelt, Anna Hegedüs, Prof. Dr. Michael Klassen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Klie, Prof. Dr. Peter Löcherbach, Michael Monzer, Prof. Dr. Claus Reis, Prof. Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt — represent the societies and the academies. The Schriftleitung (responsible editor) is Prof. Dr. Thomas Klie (Institut AGP Sozialforschung); the Redaktion is Annette Xandry.

The business model follows the professional-journal pattern: the subscriptions (97 euros print+online incl. VAT, 76 euros online-only), the society organ's distribution, the advertising (the health and social industry's), and the publisher's program synergies (the online library, the academy). Detailed circulation figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is the publisher's medhochzwei-verlag.de — the Zeitschriften > Case Management section: the issues, the subscriptions, the media data. The medhochzwei Online-Bibliothek — the digital library — carries the journal: the campus and company licenses for the universities and organizations. The mobile app extends the access. The fachmedien.de shop (Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt's) sells the subscriptions: the print+online and online-only offers.

The digital strategy follows the professional-press logic: the print quarterly for the deep field coverage — the methods, the systems, the law — the online library and the publisher's portal for the access and the program. The EBSCO interview documents the publisher's self-understanding: the scientific foundation and practical applicability, the interdisciplinary approach (management, nursing, law, psychotherapy), the multimedia formats.

As the DACH case-management field's organ — the DGCC's, the Swiss network's, and the ÖGCC's official journal, published by the medhochzwei Verlag — Case Management remains the profession's quarterly companion: the methods, the systems, and the law — four times a year in Heidelberg.