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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Long Term Care to enhance the skills and process methods administra-

tors utilize to lead their teams.
Leadership Institute
LEADERSHIP TRAINING Advanced Nursing Home

The New York State Department of Health Administrator Course
and Labor’s Healthcare Workforce Retraining
A six-day course is offered to Nursing Home
Initiative (HWRI) currently funds the Long
Administrators who have successfully completed
Term Care Leadership Institute. The Institute
the basic Nursing Home Administrator Leadership
is a state-of-the-art continuing education
course and/or those with over two years of expe-
leadership program for professionals working
rience. The focus of this course is to develop/en-
in management positions in skilled nursing
hance systems for ongoing facility operations and
and assisted living facilities. The goals are to
to strive for excellence in quality improvement.
improve quality care by preparing leaders and
Strategic planning, change theory, building and
potential leaders to meet new job require-
leading effective teams and their advocacy and
ments in a changing healthcare environment,
community action roles are key objectives of
and to facilitate career advancement in areas
the course.
of shortage. The skills developed and learned
have enabled participants to advance in their
Assisted Living Administrator Course
career and to transfer these skills to the other
This new 2017 program, is a ten-day intensive
staff at their facilities.
leadership program that guides the Assisted Living
Administrator through the regulatory, financial,
The FQC is pleased to offer the following
human resources, customer care services and
leadership programs:
supports, and leadership domains for the purpose
of building administrative knowledge and skills.
The course work was built on the framework of
NAB credentialing competencies.

Administrator Leadership
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.
Nursing Home Administrator Nursing Home Directors of Nursing Course
When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Leadership Course An eight-day course is offered to new Directors
—Jack Welch An eight–day course is offered to newly licensed of Nursing or aspiring Directors of Nursing
Nursing Home Administrators to enhance their skills as who work in skilled nursing facilities. The course
they apply their knowledge to the overall management uses systems theory to guide leadership on a
of a skilled nursing facility. The LNHA competencies framework of nurse executive competencies.

are used as the basic outline for the design of the Participants who successfully complete the course
curriculum, but have been built upon by incorporating can receive 3 college credits from the SUNY Poly-
the framework used by the American College of Health technic Institute.
Care Administrators’ advanced professional standards

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