CARF International announced that Daviess Community Hospital has been accredited for a period of three years for its Acute Rehab Unit. The latest accreditation is the second consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body has awarded to Daviess Community Hospital.
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 accreditation puts a stamp of approval on the quality of work that our staff is doing on a daily basis," said Amy Pfoff, Rehabilitation Director at DCH. "The report showed that we are meeting individual needs and consistently enabling members of our community to achieve positive outcomes through their physical rehabilitation experience.”
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. | 
Like most patients on the hospital’s Acute Rehab Unit, Marilyn Burkhardt (left) receives a variety of therapies. In this photo, Cara Veale, OTR, Occupational Therapist (center) and Michelle Helms, Speech Pathologist (right) review a treatment plan during her rehabilitation at DCH. The hospital’s Rehab Unit recently achieved Three-Year Accreditation from CARF, an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services provided by rehab units |