Long-Term Care Administration

Catalog description

This course examines the special administrative and organizational methods, social systems and population that are attributable to all kinds of residential and long term care facilities, as separate entities from acute care hospitals. It includes an overview of the long term care continuum, including community care, management issues, Medicare and Medicaid, finance, pertinent laws and regulations, and patient/resident requirements and needs. Care and treatment standards will be reviewed and discussed, as well as policy changes and government trends associated with the new paradigm of aging in the 21st Century. The pre-requisite of PM 738 is required.