Organized into three sections, the main topics covered throughout the 17 chapters follow a logical sequence, therefore helping beginners understand the complexities of managing a nursing facility. Coverage flows from a system overview, to a nursing facility’s main external factors, to the organization and integration of internal processes, and finally, to the management of both external and internal environments that is necessary for achieving the desired outcomes and strategic positioning of a long-term care facility.

Learning modules at the beginning of each chapter highlight critical topics and issues and are then covered in sequence to facilitate teaching and learning.

Theories, models, illustrations, tables and charts and examples incorporated throughout the text help convey important concepts.

Discussion questions at the end of each chapter provoke critical thinking through application to the topics discussed.

Websites listed at the end of each chapter promote further learning and are ideal for assigning individual or group projects.

A Glossary at the end of the book is a comprehensive dictionary of key terms used in the text. Each key term is highlighted when it is first used.

A complete online instructor’s manual found at the book’s companion website at http://healthadmin.jbpub.com/singh provides helpful tools for organizing and teaching the course. This website also contains downloadable files of the book’s preface and table of contents and sample chapters.

Contains a summary of long-term care policy and provides a comprehensive definition of long-term care as well as its main characteristics.

The text is easily adapted for graduate-level courses by using the discussion questions, website links and research papers.