• Medical Rehabilitation

  With the rapid changes and advances in rehabilitation, CARF's medical rehabilitation standards reflect leadership in the field internationally.

  CARF accredits medical rehabilitation programs in a variety of settings and specialty areas, including:

  • Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation
  • Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation
  • Home and Community Services
  • Residential Rehabilitation
  • Vocational Services
  • Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation
  • Occupational Rehabilitation
  • Independent Evaluation Services
  • Case Management
  • Pediatric Specialty
  • Amputation Specialty
  • Brain Injury Specialty
  • Cancer Rehabilitation Specialty
  • Spinal Cord Specialty
  • Stroke Specialty

  CARF accredits many other programs within each of the general categories listed above. Please refer to the program descriptions for further details.

  CARF International congratulates the hospitals with CARF-accredited medical rehabilitation programs that were recognized among the nation's 17 best hospitals for rehabilitation in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals for Adult Rehabilitation 2021–2022.” 

  The European Spinal Cord Injury Federation calls accreditation “useful as a quality strategy” in the federation's Statement on the quality of spinal cord injury rehabilitation and management.

  For more information on CARF medical rehabilitation accreditation, please email med@carf.org or call toll free (888) 281-6531.

• CARF International rehabilitation director honored by ACRM

  Chris MacDonell, CARF International’s managing director of medical rehabilitation and international aging services/medical rehabilitation, was presented with a 2014 Distinguished Member Award and named a 2014 Fellow of ACRM at the ACRM 91st Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario. Read the news release.

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• Medical rehabilitation resources

  • Medical Rehabilitation in Pandemics: Towards a New Perspective
    Accepted paper in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine about the unprecedented challenges the rehabilitation community faces during this pandemic due to increased demand for rehabilitative care to COVID-19 patients during their recovery phase.
  • Improving SCI outcomes with enhanced person-centered care - blog post
    Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, is beginning to share the results from a three-year research project on the outcomes of an enhanced person-centered care initiative (including spinal cord injury peer mentorship) and how those strategies can be affordably replicated elsewhere.
  • Client-centered practice in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: A field guide (PDF) 
    Monograph intended for rehabilitation health professionals, educators, and supervisors who work in a rehabilitation setting with adults with spinal cord injury.
  • Medical rehabilitation standards manual resources (PDF) 
    Resource links referenced in the standards manual.

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