Healthcare Quality Appraisal and Evaluation

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Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
History
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-
profitable international organization that was established on the year 1966 by two different
national organization namely The National Association of Sheltered Workshops and
Homebound Programs (NASWHP) and The Association of Rehabilitation Centres (ARC).
The above mentioned organization are responsible for developing standards from past a
decade including their individual membership (Carf.org, 2019). In the year 1966, both the
organization decide and agreed to combine their interest in forming standard and therefore
established the accreditation organization named The Commission on Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities, also recognized as CARF international. In the year 1969, CARF
accredited their first program or idea in Canada.
In April 1970, the council of state Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation
approved a resolution that urged the state organisations to function in achieving the goal of
utilizing every organization for providing appropriate rehabilitation services that was
supposed to get accredited by the CARF. This was considered as the principal development
within the past history of the organization. In May 1979, the president Carter, acknowledged
CARF for their crucial efforts in order to elevate rehabilitation service delivery to the citizens
of the nation with disabilities. In January 1994, CARF updated their staffing patterns in order
to emphasize in three different fields namely Alcohol and Other Drugs or Mental Health,
Vocational and Employment or Developmental Disabilities and Medical Rehabilitation
(Carf.org, 2019).
In August 1996, CARF accredited their first program within the European continents.
In January 1997, CARF with the U.S. department of Veterans Affairs had engaged a contract

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in order to accredit every rehabilitation program for a continuous five year time span
(Carf.org, 2019). In November 2001, CARF was renowned by the Centre for Substance
Abuse Treatment (CSAT) or Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) and approved an accrediting association for Opioid Treatment Program. In June
2007, CARF launched their extranet Customer connect service (customerconnect.carf.org).
Present
Presently CARF has evolved considerably in size and have informally implemented
CARF international as their registered designation once they were accredited in Canada,
South America and Europe. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
(CARF) currently delivers accreditation services to different areas named as customer service
units that includes aging services, Youth and child services, prosthetics, behavioural health,
orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS), robust medical equipment, opioid prevention program,
community services and employment and medical rehabilitation. Currently CARF family
accredits approximately 6,000 different organizations and in case of different institutions, it
signifies an alternate to the Joint commission certification. Presently the CARF international
is focusing on enhancing safety, quality and health outcome of the patient within the
rehabilitation sector that are accredited from CARF and fulfil the requirement of the
internationally-renowned performance standard and quality (Healthfinder.gov, 2019).
Future
For the future perspective, CARF primarily aim to enhance the service quality in
order to fulfil the health outcome of the patients. CARF will focus on providing accreditation
facilities worldwide under the request of human and heath service providers. Their support
and care for the rehabilitation centre is useful for the people who are suffering from various
issues and are recognized by the organization (MacDonell, 2017).