Kalamazoo, MI — April 15, 2008 — CARF International announced that HomeLife, Inc. has been accredited for a period of three years for its Psychosocial Residential Treatment (Adult) programs. The latest accreditation is the fourth consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body has awarded to HomeLife, Inc. in its nearly 12 years of operation.
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.HomeLife, Inc. operated by co-founders Barry Bruns and Scott Christ provides services in seven residential home programs in Kalamazoo. Their mission is to provide the highest quality of care possible, to persons struggling with the long-term effects of injury and illness secondary to Mental Illness and/or Brain Injury. HomeLife’s vision and values include the provision of stable and optimal care that dignifies the persons served as individuals, while meeting their unique challenges.
“This accomplishment marks the continued commitment to quality care by all HomeLife, Inc. employees,” Christ said. “We were also pleased and humbled to have received exemplary surveyor comments regarding the quality of our home environments, and our employee training programs.” 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.