4/10/2018
Surveyors representing health and human service organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada attended the 2018 CARF Surveyor Continuing Education Conference on March 24 and 25 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort in beautiful Tucson, Arizona.
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4/3/2018
The New Beginnings Safe Parking Program in Santa Barbara
provides shelter and housing to the vehicular homeless population. The program
utilizes empty parking lots that would otherwise remain unused at night. Each
night, the program shelters more than 150 individuals and families who live in
their vehicles.
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3/22/2018
By T. Kent Keyser, Public Policy Fellow, United Spinal Association. Kent spent more than three decades working for a
prominent member of the U.S. House of Representatives. That experience coupled
with his natural resilience and optimism helped him overcome rehabilitation
obstacles following a severe spinal cord injury from a freak accident in his
home. Kent took charge of his own recovery and is now a national advocate for
others with spinal cord injury or other paralyzing conditions.
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3/20/2018
Recent CMS actions provide welcome clarity to providers, insurers, and individuals with chronic conditions who need rehabilitative therapies and other skilled services, even when their underlying condition will not improve.
The actions include revisions to the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, a CMS webpage devoted to the topic, and a nationwide education campaign.
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3/13/2018
One of the biggest drivers of service options is the availability of
funding. When a piece of federal legislation redefines how public funds can be
used, it changes the array of available services.
The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) primary focus is
prevention services. Simply put, states will be able to use Title IV-E foster-care
funds for services for children at risk
of entering foster care. Previously, these funds could be used only for foster
care itself and for adoption assistance.
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2/28/2018
CARF’s winter Transforming Outcomes Institute concluded on February 24.
It hosted more than 100 participants in Tucson, AZ. Here’s a visual breakdown of the
training.
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1/19/2018
On Tuesday, January
16, Tyler Hilinski, the starting quarterback for the Washington State Cougars
football team, lost his life to suicide. His death leaves family, teammates,
classmates, and many other members of the community in a state of deep pain. Tyler was not someone
most would have imagined was dealing with a behavioral health issue. He was
young, intelligent, and a star Division-1 athlete. These facts underscore a
major misconception about suicide.
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1/3/2018
In 1996, Lund University Hospital in Sweden became the first organization outside North America with a CARF-accredited program. Since then, the organization has restructured into Skåne University Hospital. The organization is preparing for its seventh accreditation survey in early summer of 2018.
Already one of the largest rehabilitation medicine clinics in Scandinavia, what makes Skåne University continuously committed to CARF accreditation?
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11/8/2017
Standards for business practices in health and human services are
robust and forward-looking in the CARF model. However, this important
area can be underemphasized or overlooked entirely by other accreditors.
David Wilber, executive director of Diversified Enterprises and long-time CARF
surveyor, witnessed
the difference in results and volunteered his perspective for the white
paper Developing sophisticated systems for success, recently published by BB&T Capital Markets. In the following
article, Wilber describes his path to understanding how CARF is a
differentiator for organizations seeking to survive, compete, and thrive in
this increasingly complex service arena.
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9/1/2017
We at CARF are deeply concerned about the many lives
affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, natural disasters of significant scope and scale.
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