A Long Term Care Regulatory Guidelines

The Long Term Care Organizational has a Licensing of Administrator when is a single facility but when is a larger corporation has a governing body and administration. There hierarchy is flat. A flat structure means that the administrator has a broader span of administrative responsibilities. The legal term care services are to protect residents.

Hello Dr. Ullom, majority of the long term care facilities are under staffed. There is usually one registered nurse in charge to manage a 240 bed facility, with LPN's  and nursing assistance. I feel that these patients would benefit from having one RN to every six -eight patients with a nursing assistance. Not only would this benefit the patient but the nurse as well. Patient are placed in long term care facility with a certain problem, but ends up with additional condition such as UTI, MRSA, pressure ulcers, and etc. These issues are related to poor care they receive because of unstaffing. I'm not placing blame on the LPN or nursing assistance, but with a RN and low nurse to patient ratio, they will receive better care.

Roles of Administrator and Case Managers in this facility vs. roles of Administrator and Case Manager in other facilities

Several regulatory agencies are responsible for licensing long-term care facilities to ensure compliance of laws and regulations. Regulatory agencies also receive and investigate complaints that are related to the facility and the services in which the facility provides (Walsh, 2014). All long-term care facilities are expected to abide by these regulations in an effort to ensure long-term care patients proper care, ethical treatment, safe living environments, and health care reimbursement.

The Long-Term Care Act was to benefit and work with seniors to improve their overall well-being. The Long-Term Care Homes Act guarantees to help residents living within the long-term care system to receive dependable, high-quality, and safe care for the residents. It is often common for seniors to adjust when placed in long-term care as this is a new and challenging transition for the senior and their families. The commonplace goal is to have a long-term care home environment where residents feel comfortable and at home, where residents are treated with the respect they deserve, and have the proper supports and services that cherish to their particular needs for their overall health and well-being. These services are physical and mental health related services- especially one that relates to the Community Worker Program such as Community and Social Workers that are crucial in a senior’s life often.

Accreditation is a reviewing process to demonstrate the ability of organizations to meet criteria and standards established by a professional accrediting agency.

While advocating for this particular policy, the draw back maybe the families being asked to care for and alter their homes to suite the lifestlye of their elderly parents and the disatisfaction that may arise from some of them for having there lives impeeded upon by caring for the aging family member or members. Another draw back may be from the long term care facilities that are already in existence, by way of those in the medical field experiencing their earning potentional impeded upon with the expantion of these types of facilities to the area. Aswell their maybe some draw back as to the quality of care these individual receive in this least restrictive enviroment, and it may also be harder to receive adequate funding because resolts

This paper will review the many aspects of long-term care problems and many challenges there are within Long-Term care. We will look at rising costs within long-Term Care, patient abuse, will look at the quality of life, shortages of nurses and demand that the elderly are putting on the medical field. The type of care that Long-Term Care had been giving to its patients and the changes within Long-Term Care.

The need for effective health care and incidence of chronic health conditions are expected to increase considerably with the aging of the baby boomers’ population. It is estimated that number of Americans with chronic health conditions will reach 150 million by the year 2030 (Joseph 2006). Furthermore, current long-term care facilities designed decades ago are lagging behind the legal regulation that were established, while not accommodating the needs of the staff and the clients comfortably. Some the facilities are facing regulatory challenges that emanate from the original design and intended use. Subsequently, the requirements for cost-effective long-term care facilities must be carefully

This article states that Hawaii is introducing a policy to reduce the burden on caregivers who are providing long-term and end of life care to family members. This policy introduces a stipend of 70 dollars per day for people caring for an elderly family member. The policy has some limitations. Only those who work at least 30 hours a week can utilize this stipend. The intent is for caregivers to use this stipend to supplement wages, hire help, and buy caregiving supplies.

According to Wikipedia “Long-term care is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and

When trying to find a way to reduce cost of long-term care it can be challenging, therefore, finding two alternative solutions is necessary for just in case the primary solution doesn’t work. One such potential solution would be a cooperative home between college students and the elderly patients. This could help resolve the cost problem because a spilt cost between college students and the patients would dramatically reduce costs and it would help the college students find a more affordable living space in comparison to sharing an apartment with other roommates. We would, of course, interview the candidates for the living spaces to ensure that both parties are not only compatible but also reliable. The situation would be like a roommate because both parties must pay their rent on time and be responsible for their costs. Obviously, the elderly patients would most

The residential aged care policies are constantly changing over the years. This paper will explore and compare policies that were not present before. I interviewed one of my co-workers, who have the same cultural background as me. She responded to my question of how things work in the aged care back then about handling difficult patients and restraints. The interviewee responded, 20 to 30 years ago, when a resident is in a distressing and uncontrollable manner, there are forms of restraints available to protect the resident from harm and possible fall. An example given by the interviewee was when a resident is sitting on a chair, there is an available tie at the back to secure the resident and to avoid the possibility of a fall, the interviewee described it as an apron-like restraint. However, at that time, the place where the interviewee works is called a hostel for the elderly and transitioned into an ageing place few years ago. She also added an example that when a resident is on bed, rails can be raised up as per request by the resident without a doctors’ order. At this time, it is illegal to use physical restraints without the consent of the doctor, legal representative and if possible, the resident. Nowadays, appropriate checks and

Since the area of long-term health care is constantly evolving the manager must be able to prepare for changes that could affect the organization. These changes could involve federal regulations, state and local polices, and accrediting agencies (Dana & Olson, 2007). This requires the ability to be open-minded and creative to embrace the opportunity for improvement. The manager must be able to plan ahead to ensure the organization is not blindsided by these changes. However, in order to better adapt to these changes, the manager must have a strong base to work from. The implementation of changes may be costly so the manager must be able to determine the capability of the organization’s funding abilities. Mangers that are able to budget costs

This article discussed one of the most forgotten impacts on retirement readiness, the need for Long-Term Care (LTC). The article uses tables to breakdown and show examples of what households with differing income/wealth would need to be fifty percent, seventy-five percent or ninety-five percent confident they were sufficiently prepare for retirement should they need LTC. It discusses the impact to the households wealth should Medicare be the only option, which is the case for most low-income and many middle-income households. It also says that researchers agree that private insurance is an important part of being financially secure at retirement. Other options are presented in the article such as integrating LTC with 401(k) plans, but they