Over 50,000 organizations exist today that provide long-term care services, and more are likely in the future. To manage these organizations on a daily basis and to bring together the fragmented services of long-term care together into cost-effective systems of care, well-trained leaders are essential.
The Center for Health Care Innovation at California State University Long Beach holds a $1 million grant from the Archstone Foundation to develop and test a model program for training managers of long-term care services. Products of the project include a master curriculum for health care administration programs, a textbook on long-term care with an instructor's guide, and a slide package to educate managers and board members. To ensure the pragmatic relevancy of the curriculum, extensive networks have been developed with service providers, insurers, policy-makers, government agency staff, and consumers. As groundwork for the curriculum, the investigators examined employment forecasts, health manpower trends, existing training programs, and trends in health professions and general education.
The analyses indicated a growing demand for sophisticated administrators and leaders, contrasted with a dearth of adequate academic preparation or field experience. These findings speak to the urgency of working with universities, professional and trade associations, and private and government agencies to focus education for future as well as current administrators on the formal training in the fundamentals of sound business administration and the special issues of long-term care.
See www.csulb.edu\~chciLearning Objectives: 1. Explain the rationale for improved training in long-term care for managers of health care and social service organizations. 2. Delineate the 10 core content areas that should be included in management training, noting special emphases on long-term care. 3. Discuss how to apply the long-term care management curriculum in their setting, whether academic, policy, financing or service organization.
Keywords: Leadership, Nursing Homes
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