The Commission connected the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International has renewed the accreditation of Willis-Knighton Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Institute for a three-year cycle. The accreditation is the 13 th consecutive three-year accreditation awarded by the planetary accrediting assemblage to the rehabilitation hospital.
Willis-Knighton’s inpatient portion at WK Rehabilitation Institute, 1111 Line Ave., achieved accreditation for Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs – Hospital (Adults) and for the archetypal clip Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs – Hospital: Stroke Specialty Program (Adults). All 4 outpatient rehabilitation clinics were surveyed and gained accreditation for Interdisciplinary Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation Programs (Adult, Children and Adolescents).
Programs achieved accreditation with nary recommendations, which is lone achieved successful 3% of surveys conducted, noted Amy Sudduth, manager of Willis-Knighton Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
The CARF designation represents the highest level of accreditation that tin beryllium awarded to rehabilitation facilities and demonstrates Willis-Knighton’s committedness to gathering the CARF standards, Sudduth said. The process includes a rigorous adjacent reappraisal process by a squad of surveyors who marque tract visits to guarantee that an organization’s programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable and accountable.
“Accreditation demonstrates our committedness to continusouly amended the prime of attraction we supply and to absorption connected the restitution of the patients we serve,” Sudduth said. “Ultimately, a CARF accredited programme strives to beryllium the champion successful its community. It’s astir prime and our patients are the beneficiaries of our hard enactment and dedication to making definite their acquisition successful rehab gives them the champion accidental of gathering their
goals.”
Willis-Knighton Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Institute is 1 of lone 11 CARF- accredited inpatientrehabilitation facilities and 1 of lone 2 outpatient aesculapian rehabilitation facilities successful Louisiana with the designation. Willis-Knighton has the lone CARF-accredited aesculapian rehabilitation programme for either inpatient oregon outpatient programs northbound of I-10.
CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body, whose ngo is to beforehand the quality, value, and
optimal outcomes of services done a consultative accreditation process that centers connected enhancing the lives
of the persons served. Founded successful 1966 arsenic the Commission connected Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and
now known arsenic CARF, the accrediting assemblage establishes user focused standards to assistance organizations
measure and amended the prime of their programs and services.
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