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Ohio Eating Disorder Hospital Achieves Gold Standard In Acknowledgement

Published December 23, 2011

It's an phenomenal attainment for a phenomenal organization. On Dec. 5, CARF World announced The Center for Balanced Living, a Worthington, Ohio-based non-profit hospital focusing on the handling of eating disorders, had been licensed for three years for their outpatient all-embracing services, their two Intensive Outpatient Programs for Eating Disorders (IOP) and their Partial Hospitalization Programme for Eating Defects (PHP) and other psychological well-being issues. This represents the top level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and is the result of a five-year commitment by The Center to study, develop and implement CARF standards. CARF is an independent, non-profit licensing body whose mission is to market the quality, value, and ideal outcomes of services thru a consultative approval process that is focused on enhancing the lives of the folks served. Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Authentication of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF International, the commissioning body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the standard of their programs and services.

“CARF is the gold standard for eminence in organizational management and delivery of behaviour health programme services,” says Cheryl Ryland, chief finance officer at The Center for Balanced Living. The three-year validation was achieved through a rigorous peer review process conducted by CARF assessors, who reviewed The Center’s services on over 1,200 standards at all levels of care offered by the organisation. Workers at The Center demonstrated to a gang of surveyors in an on-site visit Oct. Twenty-four to 26 the organization’s dedication to offering programs and services that are quantifiable, responsible and of the very best quality.

The confirmation period is from October 2011 to October 2014. “When patients and families are seeking care, CARF certification can give them some confidence in the quality of care they can expect. In the professional community, this is recognition and validation that our programs and services have met quality standards of practice,” Ryland asserts. CARF surveyors identified twenty-two strengths at The Center, including 3 areas where the organization exhibits exemplary performance, serving as nationwide models for the identified services in specialized treatment of eating disorders. The Center was found to be exemplary in the following areas :

  • Coaching and education opportunities offered to staff
  • Supply of education and activities that push the elimination of stigma around psychological well-being issues
  • Development of processes that adhere to research axioms and ethics where clients are concerned.
Among the strengths identified by CARF assessors were The Center’s global presence in the handling of eating abnormalities, including a presentation made by the organization’s CEO and founder Doctor. Laura Hill at the Global Academy of Eating Aberrations in Salzburg, Austria in 2010. Surveyors also cited the 2011 Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness given to Hill at a ceremony in Hollywood, California by the Nation's Eating Anomalies Organisation in October.

In CARF’s listing of The Center’s strengths, surveyors noted “the persons served are the driver for the entire programme. They constantly express satisfaction with services and staff and view their experience as life-changing and literally life-saving.” As a part of the accreditation process, CARF may counsel changes to programs at an organization — The Center for Balanced Living received no recommendations for changes to their PHP program and no changes to either IOP programme or any of their outpatient services. Express services that the Center received three-year validation were :

  • Thorough Outpatient Treatment : Mental Health (adults)
  • Intensive Outpatient Treatment : Psychological Well-being (kids and teenagers)
  • Outpatient Treatment : Psychological Fitness (adults)
  • Outpatient Treatment : Psychological Well-being (youngsters and teenagers)
  • Partial Hospitalization : Mental Health (adults)
For detailed info on The Center for Balanced Living, come visit centerforeatingdisorders For more in-depth information on the CARF acknowledgement process, come and visit our Internet internet site news release .

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