About Me
Chartered Care provides physician-developed educational resources to help families understand complex medical and care decisions affecting aging adults.
Chartered Care was founded by me, Jessica J. Kluetz, DO, a board-certified physician in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
My clinical work has focused on evaluating functional limitations, recovery potential, and long-term rehabilitation needs for patients recovering from serious illness or injury.
Through Chartered Care I provide educational resources designed to help families better understand complex medical and care decisions.
Throughout my career I have had the opportunity to help the loved ones of patients, as well as my own friends and family members, navigate a complex healthcare system.
My journey into medicine began after graduating from Purdue University. Upon receiving my degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine-Midwestern University I completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago.
After having two kids and a third one on the way I was ready to return to Indiana and start my career as a staff physician on the acute rehabilitation unit at St.Vincent’s Hospital on 86th street. I would later become the medical director for that rehab unit.
Balancing all of my passions became difficult, and I decided to become a consultant providing rehabilitation services to residents of skilled nursing facilities. As for many, the COVID pandemic turned the usual upside down and forced me to exit the skilled nursing environment.
Since that time I have been fortunate to find a healthy and productive work-life balance working remotely as a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician clinical reviewer conducting detailed clinical reviews to evaluate the medical necessity of outpatient rehabilitation services.
My training and decade long practice experience have provided me with the skills to provide compassionate direction to those in search of a path through the labyrinth that is the healthcare system.
