Finally the week is over...

Well....we got through CARF ok. We had a few bumps in the road, but I think that we should get our 3 year accreditation. Now that is over we will be working on all the things we put on hold until AC (After Carf). The one surveyor strongly suggested that our facility look into getting an EHR (Electronic Health Record) which is something we have talked about before. He said that his agency has been using one for over a year now and it is really wonderful. Our health clinic uses an EHR and we think it has a Behavioral Health tab, but unsure of what functions it has right now. We do use a form of EHR from IHS called GUI and I don't think that we are using it to its fullest capacity, so we will see. The surveyor thought that we wouldn't have an EHR by our next CARF resurveyor in 3 years, hhmmm. I heard that President Obama was going to be pushing for EHR's as well, maybe he will make some funds available!!! How nice would that be!!