The Joint Commission Accreditation
By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Sarasota has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™.
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission is dedicated to continuously improving the safety and quality of the nation's health care through voluntary accreditation. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including more than 8,000 hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 6,800 other health care organizations that provide long term care, assisted living, behavioral health care, laboratory and ambulatory care services. The Joint Commission also accredits health plans, integrated delivery networks, and other managed care entities. In addition, The Joint Commission provides certification of disease-specific care programs, primary stroke centers, and health care staffing services.
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital’s Stroke Program has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality. The Joint Commission awarded HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital Disease-Specific Care Certification for it’s Stroke Program.
To earn this distinction, a disease management program undergoes an extensive, unannounced, on-site evaluation by a team of Joint Commission reviewers every two years. The program is evaluated against Joint Commission standards through an assessment of a program’s processes, the program’s ability to evaluate and improve care within its own organization, and interviews with patients and staff.
Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Sarasota is proud to be a Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence.
The Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence designation is a rigorous internal recognition program that highlights the accomplishments of HealthSouth Hospitals that have exceeded established benchmarks in clinical programming and patient outcomes for the treatment of stroke.
Some of those benchmarks include the program being led by a board-certified physician with expertise and specialized training in stroke. The hospital's medical staff includes specialty physicians in the areas of neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, and pulmonary and internal medicine.
Stroke Rehabilitation Centers of Excellence employ treatment teams of specially trained clinicians in the areas of physical, occupational and speech therapies, in addition to nursing. These treatment teams meet weekly to develop individualized course of treatment for patients. the course of treatment could include a combination of the following specialty programs: cognitive retraining, behavior management, comprehensive spasticity management, neuropsychological testing and treatment, augmentative communication, driving education, and gait and balance, training.
Stroke teams also meet with patient and family to obtain in put for the plan of care. Structured family education series provide caregivers disease-specific information on prevention, medication management and coping strategies.
Stroke Rehabilitation Centers of Excellence provide discharge planning and continuing education initiatives to stroke patients in the form of vocational and community re-entry education, transitional living, home evaluations and therapeutic home visits. Stroke support groups are also available to patients for follow-up care every month.
CARF Accreditation
CARF International announced that HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital has been accredited for a period of three years for its Inpatient Rehabilitation programs for adults, children and adolescents as well as its Inpatient rehabilitation stroke specialty program. 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.
