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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8/23/2017
We spoke with three former CARF
surveyors who are now CARF staff members. They shared some interesting context
on themselves and why they first got into surveying
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7/11/2017
Halfway into the 1971 classic film Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Gene Wilder, wearing an orange top hat
and oversized bow tie, excitedly shows off a special wall covered in
fruit-decorated wallpaper. “Lick a pineapple,” he implores. “It tastes like a
pineapple. Try some more! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!” While
snozzberries and lickable wallpaper are the stuff of fiction, the interactive
wonderland of Wonka’s chocolate factory is not far from reality at Riley
Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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6/7/2017
Gathering consumer feedback with uSPEQ survey tools has been gaining
traction within hospitals across China over the past two years. It is part of a
larger quality improvement groundswell happening in the country.
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4/12/2017
Hawaii Island Recovery utilizes a resident pod of wild, free-swimming
Spinner dolphins to create meaningful experiences for their clients receiving
treatment for addiction. Program Director and Experiential Therapist, Eliza
Wille, shares how she combined her master’s degree in psychology and years-long
interest and research in cetaceans to develop this unique program.
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3/23/2017
4 practices to develop a SOGIE-literate culture: CARF spoke with Los Angeles Youth Network (LAYN), about what it does to
create and maintain a SOGIE-conscious culture. CEO Mark Supper identified four
cultural competency practices that help LAYN stay inclusive of diverse SOGIE.
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3/21/2017
In this case study, we follow a youth named Adam through his decision
to come out as transgender, the resulting trauma and homelessness, and the
services provided to get him on a path to success. The challenges he
experienced were a direct result of his gender identity and new expression of
it. Valuing that part of his identity was an important element in creating a
service environment for him to succeed.
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