This book provides a solid foundation on which to build expertise, understand the differences and similarities among the many long-term services, how the various segments of long-term care fit together to form an overall system, and the skills needed to succeed in that system.

Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum

Medical Books

Pratt, John R.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Even as you read this, the field of long-term care is undergoing a rap id redefinition of both its institutional and community-based provider s. Public policy makers are working to add much-needed alternative mod es of delivery to traditional long-term institutional care. New rules, new levels, and new kinds of care are constantly being created. As a result, tomorrow's long-term care administrators will have to be flexi ble enough to adapt to different management settings, and to oversee a n ever-expanding variety of services. They will need the skills essent ial to managing larger organizations, likely to include multiple aspec ts of long-term care. Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum pr ovides a solid, realistic foundation on which to build your expertise. You will understand the differences and similarities among the many l ong-term care services... how the various segments of long-term care f it together to form an overall system ...and the skills you will need to succeed in that system in the future.

Long Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, Fourth Edition is an ideal introduction to management in this industry. Adopted as a reference for the national licensing examination prepared by the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB), this book covers the full continuum of long-term care. The Fourth Edition is a thorough update that offers a new chapter on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), with a particular focus on its impact on long-term care. All other chapters have been updated with the latest changes in regulations, financing methods, forms of service delivery and management methods in this dynamic field. The chapter on Leadership and Culture Change has been separated into two distinct chapters: Leadership in Long-Term Care and Culture Change in Long-Term – each with expanded information.

Long-term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (Digital-Only Product, 4th Edition) Not Hardcover

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

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