LTC - Long-Term Care Administration

This is the introductory course for the four-course concentration in Long-Term Care Administration. This course reviews the historical highlights of long-term care and the fundamental principles of the long-term care administrator’s role and responsibilities including ethical and legal issues that impact them. Students also examine the regulatory requirements that govern long-term care facilities, resident care, and life safety codes. Labor laws, recruitment processes, and employee management procedures specific to long term care facilities are also addressed in this course. Pre-requisite(s): HCL 310, 315, 320, 330, 335, and MGT 436 or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course examines leadership and management issues and skills administrators may encounter and need to effectively lead long-term care employees. Students explore multidisciplinary approaches to leadership and management, motivating workers, and leading organizational change. This course also reviews the principles, methods, and procedures for effectively leading long term care employees, as well as job selection, training, development, and evaluation of job performance. Pre-requisite(s): LTC 450 or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course examines the financial management and governance requirements of long-term care facilities. Students interpret financial reports required to operate long-term care facilities and review various reimbursement methods for services and products and the management of capital expenses. They further examine the governmental authorities that oversee and regulate long-term care facilities and the administrative responses to these authorities, as well as cost containment expectations and the different types of advisory committees associated with the operation f a long-term care facility. Pre-requisite(s): LTC 450, or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course examines the specific differences among the different types of long-term residences, their purposes, and needs. Students discuss the expected collaboration and integration of long-term care residence services for a fulfilling residential experience, ethical issues associated with the delivery of long-term care residency services, differences between quality assurance (QA) and continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs in long-term care facilities, and strategies for meeting quality expectations in the delivery of residence services. Students further explore the methods for assessment and comparison of outcomes-based and process-based measures and the criteria for designing and evaluating long-term care systems for the future. Pre-requisite(s): LTC 450; or permission of Program Chair or designate. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hour