The Comprehensive Guide to Nursing Home Administration
Brian Garavaglia, Ph.D., FACHCA
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Product Description:
How to run a successful SNF
Learn the nuts and bolts of how to be an effective SNF administrator. This book serves as your blueprint to managing staff, developing a budget, and navigating the ever-changing regulatory environment. Complete with an emphasis on high-focus survey targets such as Medicare reimbursement, quality care, and documentation, this book also contains more than 850 downloadable test questions to ensure SNF administrators are well prepared to improve operational efficiency.
The Comprehensive Guide to Nursing Home Administration will help you:
- Create a culture of communication and efficiency by clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of every staff member in the nursing home
- Reduce nursing home staff turnover by hiring the most qualified employees and supporting them with effective training
- Achieve regulatory compliance by being survey-ready at all times through implementation of appropriate policies and procedures
- Gain a thorough understanding of the MDS 3.0, RUG-IV, and SNF reimbursement to maintain your facility’s financial viability
- Develop financial savvy and confidence to effectively manage budget responsibilities
- Comply with CMS regulations and Medicare reimbursement guidelines through easy-to-understand descriptions and analysis
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Nursing Home Administration
- Chapter 2: The Language of the Healthcare Culture: Biological and Psychosocial Aspects of Aging
- Chapter 3: Long-Term Care Management Personnel
- Chapter 4: Long-Term Care Nonmanagement Personnel
- Chapter 5: Management and Organizational Structure Within Healthcare
- Chapter 6: Environmental Management and Building Operations
- Chapter 7: Human Resources: Managing Personnel
- Chapter 8: Infection Control and Sanitation
- Chapter 9: The Regulatory Environment
- Chapter 10: Addendum Regarding Additional Information on Consolidated Billing, the Prospective Payment System, and the MDS
- Chapter 11: Finance and Budgeting
- References
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, you will be able to:
- Identify regulations that direct resident care and reimbursement
- Describe basic clinical and rehabilitative elements of skilled nursing services
- Explain the role and responsibilities of nursing home administrators
- Identify critical finance and budgeting items and concerns
Continuing Education
National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB)
This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) and approved for 10.00 clock hours.
About the Author
Dr. Brian Garavaglia is a healthcare administrator and college instructor who has worked in healthcare for more than 25 years within the acute, subacute, and long-term care settings and has been actively involved in healthcare as a program director, consultant, and clinician. As an educator, Garavaglia has served as a lecturer within within graduate medical education for family care and internal medicine residents, providing education on the issues of dementia, cognitive changes as part of the aging process, and other mental health issues related to older adults. Garavaglia holds the distinction of being a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Administrators.Product Types : Departments :
SOURCE CODE: EHCM
ISBN: 978-1-60146-921-2
PUBLISHED: 03/14/2012
