AMHC’s Center for Integrated Neuro-Rehab awarded three-year CARF accreditation

    CARIBOU— Officials with CARF International announced AMHC has been accredited for a period of three years for its Center for Integrated Neuro-Rehab located in Caribou. This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows AMHC’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 onsite visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable.
    AMHC’s Center for Integrated Neuro-Rehab has been providing outpatient brain injury rehabilitation services since August 2008 and is the only service of its kind north of Bangor. Center for Integrated Neuro-Rehab offers holistic therapeutic services through a multi-disciplinary staff group including neuro-psychologists and physical, occupational, speech, and recreation therapists. The service helps individuals who have an acquired brain injury improve mobility, speech, concentration, cognitive, social interaction, memory, planning, and daily living activities skills.  
    When necessary, services are also coordinated with AMHC’s mental health and substance abuse services for individuals struggling with mental illness and addiction.  In a recent customer survey, 97 percent of customers surveyed indicate that they are satisfied with the Center’s services and 100 percent would recommend them to another.
    AMHC is a nonprofit organization with 17 service sites located across Aroostook Country. AMHC has been providing mental health, substance abuse, rehabilitation, and speech and language services since 1970.
    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 consumerfocused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.