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1Step 1Set up consultation projectIf you are interested in CARF accreditation, welcome to OKEWAY. You may have a primary impression of CARF from CARF accredited organizations, from academic seminars, from our website or from internet, and now you want a further introduction. Is your organization suitable for CARF accreditation? How to apply for it? What about the investment of time, efforts and personnel required for the process? How to plan for the process? These may become your concerns. We will help you from beginning of the process, making plans and budgets, and finding optimal route for CARF accreditation for your organization.
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1Step 2Establish connection
CARF will designate a resource specialist who will with OKEWAY provide you with guidance and technical assistance. OKEWAY assists you in obtaining customer access which is used for document transmission, and communication between organizations already accredited and to be accredited. When you are determined to seek CARF accreditation and agrees to receive our consulting service, OKEWAY will assign a consultant to contact you to learn more about your demands and your organization. Our first work is formulating a complete CARF preparation action plan to facilitate the organization know our service flow and contents. Also, the plan will help the organization establish confidence that it will increasingly be ready for accreditation through constant preparation with assistance from OKEWAY.
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1Step 3Conduct a self-evaluationOKEWAY will help you conduct a self-evaluation to evaluate the conformance to CARF standards, and help you recognize the areas for improvement. Evaluation is important, and how to evaluate is more important. As the evaluation is to determine the gap between your organization and CARF requirements, therefore the evaluation is conducted as per CARF standards. OKEWAY has the standards of CARF evaluation, and thus can make most precise analysis and judgement for your organization to ensure the objectiveness and correctness of your self-evaluation.
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1Step 4Submit the survey applicationAfter full preparation, OKEWAY will assist you submitting the survey application, and keeping connection with CARF for any coordination required. Submission of survey application should be well considered. Usually we will conduct a simulated evaluation for your organization to ensure your conformance to CARF standards.
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1Step 5CARF invoices for the survey feeAfter reviewing all information included in the survey application, CARF will issue invoice to collect survey fee. Specific amount depends on the scale and goal of your organization. We will keep contact with CARF HQ to ensure survey from most suitable surveyors and to ensure optimal financial budget.
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1Step 6CARF selects the survey teamCARF selects the survey team with cooperation from OKEWAY. Surveyors are selected by matching their program or administrative expertise and relevant field experience with the service provider's unique requirements.
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1Step 7The survey team conducts the surveyThe survey team conducts the survey and determines the service provider's conformance to all applicable standards. This is an exciting moment; OKEWAY will help you seize the opportunity to obtain more guidance from world top rehabilitation experts and to show your strengths to international peers.
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1Step 8CARF renders the accreditation decision
CARF reviews the survey findings and renders one of the following accreditation decisions:
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Three-Year Accreditation
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One-Year Accreditation
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Provisional Accreditation
- Nonaccreditation
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1Step 9Submit an Annual Conformance to Quality Report (ACQR)A service provider that earns three-year accreditation submits to CARF a signed ACQR on the accreditation anniversary date in each of the years following the award. This is one condition for sustaining accreditation. OKEWAY will help you accomplish this task through high-quality professional services. Constant quality improvement is the core goal of CARF accreditation. The organization should earnestly finish this work following the award and this is also long-term service that we can provide you.
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1Step 10CARF maintains contact with the service providerCARF maintains contact with the service provider during the accreditation tenure. Providers are also encouraged to contact CARF as needed to help maintain conformance to the standards. Besides accreditation, CARF provides many other resources including international meetings, regular training events and extensive academic exchanges which will greatly help your daily work. OKEWAY will keep update for you.
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What will CARF accreditation bring to your organization?Now you have learnt how to seek CARF application. Congratulations! Benefits of CARF accreditation include:
■ Service quality conformance to internationally accepted standards.■ Assured choice for patients.
■ Assurance of service quality to funder, referral, payer, supervisor, community and other service providers.
■ The standards have integrated a complete set of quality frame system for business and service delivery.
■ Accreditation provides guidance for individualized patient service.
■ External independent assessment facilitates discovering the organization’s strengths and weaknesses.
■ Consulting and education provided by accreditation can better integrate business function and service delivery of the organization.
■ Provide guidance for following active planning and management:
–Satisfaction of patients and other stakeholders;
–Strategy affecting patients and key stakeholders;
–Develop existing services and new services to meet demands and expectations of the group served.
■ Intensify risk and safety management.
■ Expand funding sources through partnership with payers.
■ Clinical practices will be:
–more reliable
–more efficient
–form interdisciplinary team service system centering on patients
–more united team
–realize constant professional development of personnel
–organization have access to more professional networks
–comprehensive and robust financial management
■ Technology designing and perfecting organization financial system will be more efficient and have higher price-performance ratio. More importantly, it helps realizing higher satisfaction of patients and other stakeholders.
■ Excellent performance of organization can be used for:
–Assisting promotion towards consumers, referrals and third-party payers.
–Applying for funds.
–Educating the public.
–Protecting patients.
■ Patients will be more active in service planning, selection, evaluation and improvement.
■ Promote communication of employees, patients and other stakeholders.
■ Obtain support through consulting, publications, meetings and trainings of CARF.
■ Obtain preferences from insurance company.
