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Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital awarded three-year CARF accreditation
Chicago, IL — February 4, 2009 — Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) announced that Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital of Sinai Health System has been accredited for a period of three years for its inpatient programs for adults, children and adolescents. The first rehabilitation hospital to be licensed in the state of Illinois, Schwab has been accredited through CARF for 25 years.
This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a Three-Year Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable.
CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. Founded in 1966, CARF establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.
Sinai Health System is proud to be a leader in promoting and supporting IVIN and Mount Sinai Hospital is the first in Illinois to be part of IVIN. For Siani and other organizations IVIN enables a new level of ADA compliance and a new level of serving patients. Says patient Willis Jenkins, "It is like having an interpreter without having to wait. For a deaf person, it makes things easier."
For 90 years, the hospitals and caregivers of Sinai Health System have provided medical care and social services to communities in west and south Chicago. The Sinai Hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Children’s Hospital, and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital offer general acute, specialty and rehabilitation care as well as home health.
Sinai Community Institute provides social service outreach for the lifestyle issues that contribute to health while the Sinai Urban Health Institute researches the prevalence of chronic disease in Chicago neighborhoods. Collectively these organizations and the caregivers who staff them support the Sinai vision of being the national model for urban health care through community connection. Sinai Health system has an unwavering commitment to quality as evidence by Mount Sinai Hospital being in top decile nationally on over 80 percent of the CMS Core Measures for quality and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital’s 25 plus years of CARF accreditation.
For additional information about Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, call (773) 522-2010 or go to www.schwabrehab.org.
