CARF Accreditation
CARF accreditation is the highest accreditation system for Western rehabilitation services. Currently, more than 50,000 projects in more than 25,000 locations worldwide have won CARF accreditation. Each year, more than 10.2 million patients of different ages from North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia choose CARF-accredited services. CARF continues to collect opinions and suggestions from patients, rehabilitation experts and other stakeholders every year, and update the accreditation standards to ensure that the entire standard system remains at the forefront of rehabilitation medicine practice.
WHAT IS CARF
Six phases of project
Six phases based on project time schedule.
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Introduction -
ImplementationPhase II
Project Time Schedule II
Investigation on work flow and environment. Core standard training and accessible environment evaluation. Establishment of CARF standard service flow, training for rehabilitation concepts, introduction of uSPEQ, establishment of quality standard manual.
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ReinforcementPhase 3
Project Time Schedule III
Establishment of administrative and clinical document required by CARF, deepened rehabilitation technology training, clinical application of outcome information management and performance management.
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ReviewPhase 4
Project Time Schedule IV
Mid-term evaluation for the project, preparation and review of necessary documents and supporting materials, CARF accreditation application and payment support.
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SprintPhase 5
Project Time Schedule V
Primary survey from CARF experts, simulated survey guided by senior consultant, optimization of materials for survey, determination of survey schedule, comprehensive preparation for survey.
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SurveyPhase 6
Project Time Schedule VI
Final survey for CARF-required documents, confirmation of survey environment, arrangement of translation, assistance on the site of survey.
Eight difficulties
Strategy planning
Strategy planning to ensure organization operation.
Management system
Difficult operation of management system.
Management flow
· Insufficient rehabilitation treatment effect
· Insufficient rehabilitation service quality
· Insufficient rehabilitation evaluation quality
· Insufficient patient and employee satisfaction
Rehabilitation concept
· Lack of modern rehabilitation management concepts
· Non-standard clinical service flow management
· Lack of international academic exchange
Rehabilitation process
· Requirements for service scope formulation? · Requirements for admission/discharge/referral standard formulation？
· Mode of team work？ · Work flow of therapists？
· How to carry out rehabilitation evaluation？ · How to formulate personalized care plan？
· How to effectively manage outcome information？
Human resources
· Difficulty in recruiting talents
· Difficulty in cultivating talents
· Difficulty in retaining talents
Accessible service
· Accessibility design does not meet rehabilitation demands and national standards
· Accessibility design cannot reflect organization's mission, vision and core value
Constant improvement
· Have no idea on how to make constant improvement
· Does not realize true function of constant improvement.
On-site work
Customer case
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2019/6/3 0:00:00
Shanghai Fifth Rehabilitation Hospital / Ledu Hospital of Songjiang District
In accordance with CARF standards, it has carried out comprehensive reform covering both soft environment like hospital management and service process, and hardware environment like medical equipment. As a rehabilitation facility which has consecutively passed three rounds of CARF accreditations, it has established a hierarchical rehabilitation system of three grades from Grade-III facilities, Grade-II facilities to Community Health Center.
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2019/6/3 0:00:00
Rehabilitation Center of the People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province
Based on CARF standards, it has built standard accessible washrooms, set up ST rooms, and modified traditional PT rooms. It is the first facility in China which has passed three-year CARF accreditation.
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CUSTOMER VOICE
Feedback
The training is comprehensive, the consultants are friendly and their solutions are pertinent. They help us better understand CARF.
反馈调查表实
在有限的空间里尽可能多地将CARF的理念化为实际。
康复中心主任
我们是国内排名第一的康复科，为什么还是请了一家咨询公司？现在看来这个决定是正确的，确实帮助我们完成了非常多的任务，解决了许多改进过程中遇到的难题。
院办主任
作为CARF认证项目的协调人，在过去几年内真真实实地看到了CARF给医院带来的全方位的提升和改变。我们的行政工作更加高效了，也更加贴近患者了。
