Hcm413 Assignment 2
HCM413 – Long Term Care Administration, Spring, 2012
Bethesda, MD
Instructions: The first section (40 points) are mandatory question/exercises for this course. Please complete them. The second section (60 points) are questions that you can choose from. Please refer to the instructions as indicated.
This exercise is a three part assignment. In the first part, you are to go to www.realage.com and take the real age assessment to check your chronological age.
Include the results of this assignment. Write a 2 paragraph summary of your findings
Begin to think about what you hope to accomplish in your life. Write a 2 paragraph summary of your life goals and why they are significant to you
Finally, write a 1 paragraph summary …show more content…
Search for a nursing home of your choosing (maybe one from your home town). Choose 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses and describe why you chose each quality indicator. Please ensure that these weaknesses and strengths are measurable metrics.
The intention of this exercise is to become familiar with comparing nursing homes for quality measures. This exercise is worth 10 points.
Retirement may be a long way off, but it’s closer than you think! Answer the following questions:
a. Where will you live? Will you be joining a retirement community, or will you be retiring elsewhere? In two to three paragraphs, tell me where you plan on retiring and what type of home you will live in and why.
b. How much money will you need in order to retire in the manner in which you would like? Use an online retirement calculator to figure how much you will need to save by the time you reach the retirement age of 67 years old. Since social security may not be around in 30 to 40 years, do not factor social security income into your calculations.
Tell me what retirement calculator you used and how much money you will need to save by the time you retire to reach your goals.
Prior to completing this assignment, did you think you would need to save this much money in order to retire …show more content…
Please choose 6. Each question is worth 10 points
You are a VP of Operations for a fairly large Nursing Facility chain. You must hire a Nursing Home Administrator for one of your facilities. Create a list of 3 behavioral interview questions for the position of Nursing Home Administrator. Next, you are being interviewed for this position of Nursing Home Administrator. Using the three questions you created, provide short answers accordingly.
You are the Marketing Director of a Skilled Nursing Facility. You have been asked to develop a strategic Action Plan to address low census. Briefly describe three action items that you would implement to begin to bring your census up. Your marketing focus should be short term census building, thus activities related to immediate admissions should be your focus..
You are the Marketing Director of a Skilled Nursing Facility and have been asked to develop a brochure of your facility. Define who your target audience (s) is (are) and develop three key value propositions that you would include in the brochure. Be sure to link the target audience with each value
Bethesda, MD
Instructions: The first section (40 points) are mandatory question/exercises for this course. Please complete them. The second section (60 points) are questions that you can choose from. Please refer to the instructions as indicated.
This exercise is a three part assignment. In the first part, you are to go to www.realage.com and take the real age assessment to check your chronological age.
Include the results of this assignment. Write a 2 paragraph summary of your findings
Begin to think about what you hope to accomplish in your life. Write a 2 paragraph summary of your life goals and why they are significant to you
Finally, write a 1 paragraph summary …show more content…
Search for a nursing home of your choosing (maybe one from your home town). Choose 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses and describe why you chose each quality indicator. Please ensure that these weaknesses and strengths are measurable metrics.
The intention of this exercise is to become familiar with comparing nursing homes for quality measures. This exercise is worth 10 points.
Retirement may be a long way off, but it’s closer than you think! Answer the following questions:
a. Where will you live? Will you be joining a retirement community, or will you be retiring elsewhere? In two to three paragraphs, tell me where you plan on retiring and what type of home you will live in and why.
b. How much money will you need in order to retire in the manner in which you would like? Use an online retirement calculator to figure how much you will need to save by the time you reach the retirement age of 67 years old. Since social security may not be around in 30 to 40 years, do not factor social security income into your calculations.
Tell me what retirement calculator you used and how much money you will need to save by the time you retire to reach your goals.
Prior to completing this assignment, did you think you would need to save this much money in order to retire …show more content…
Please choose 6. Each question is worth 10 points
You are a VP of Operations for a fairly large Nursing Facility chain. You must hire a Nursing Home Administrator for one of your facilities. Create a list of 3 behavioral interview questions for the position of Nursing Home Administrator. Next, you are being interviewed for this position of Nursing Home Administrator. Using the three questions you created, provide short answers accordingly.
You are the Marketing Director of a Skilled Nursing Facility. You have been asked to develop a strategic Action Plan to address low census. Briefly describe three action items that you would implement to begin to bring your census up. Your marketing focus should be short term census building, thus activities related to immediate admissions should be your focus..
You are the Marketing Director of a Skilled Nursing Facility and have been asked to develop a brochure of your facility. Define who your target audience (s) is (are) and develop three key value propositions that you would include in the brochure. Be sure to link the target audience with each value