CARF International announced that Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center at Riley Hospital has been accredited for a period of three years for its rehabilitation programs. The latest accreditation is the third consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body has awarded to Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center.
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 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.
Opened in 1999, the Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center at Riley Hospital is a 20-bed Medicare-certified in-patient rehabilitation facility that provides a program specifically designed to help patients physically disabled by illness or injury to achieve better function and mobility. The center addresses the patient’s physical and medical problems, difficulties with activities of daily living, and specialized problems with feeding, communication, attention, and self-care in patients with stroke, hip fracture, joint replacement, amputation and arthritis.
“The Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center is the only CARF-accredited rehabilitation center within a 90-mile radius of Meridian. I’m very proud of the great team effort by the entire staff to obtain the three-year accreditation,” said Ben Rucks, the Rehabilitation Center’s Program Director.
The Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center is located on the fourth floor of Riley Hospital, which is a State and Joint Commission-accredited acute care medical complex that has served the east Mississippi and west Alabama region since 1930. Riley Hospital is owned and operated by Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA), which is headquartered in Naples, Florida. HMA owns and operates 57 hospitals, with approximately 8,100 licensed beds, in non-urban communities located throughout the United States.