CARF International announced that Cardinal Clinic has been accredited for a three-year period for its following mental health programs:

Assessment and referral (children and adolescents)

Outpatient treatment (children and adolescents)

Outpatient treatment (adults)

Case management/services coordination (children and adolescents)

Case management/services coordination: (adults)

Intensive family-based services (children and adolescents)

Out-of-home treatment (children and adolescents)

This is the first accreditation that the international body has awarded to Cardinal Clinic. This accreditation decision represents the highest level that can be awarded to an organization, it said in a news release.

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, the news release said.

Cardinal Clinic is a for-profit organization with offices in Southern Pines (Pinehurst Avenue and Old U.S. 1) Fayetteville and Asheboro. It has been providing services to the community since 1994.

CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served, the agency said in a news release. 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.