Welcome Maryland Administrators!

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES:

Manager 20 Hour Courses:

Per Maryland COMAR regulation 10.07.14.16.C, an assisted living manager employed in a program that is licensed for five or more beds shall complete 20 hours of Department-approved continuing education every 2 years.

Long-Term Care Learning Center offers 11 web-based training courses (14.25 hours) that you can use to help meet this requirement. These web-based courses have been reviewed and approved by the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ) as continuing education for assisted living managers.

Approved courses include:

• Adverse Medication Events • Burns and Scalds • Choking and Aspiration • Elder Abuse • Falls • Malnutrition • Problem Use of Alcohol • Suicide and Depression • Preventing Fire Hazards • Fire Safety Devices • Fire Emergency Planning

Yearly Training Courses:

We also offer MD OHCQ approved web-based courses to help you meet your yearly training requirements!

The following courses are approved for YEARLY training:
• Foodborne Illness (1 hour) - meets food safety requirement
• Infectious Diseases (2 hours) - meets infection control/standard precaution requirement
• Preventing Fire Hazards (2 hours) - meets fire safety requirement
• Dementia and Mental Illness (3 hours) - (Available summer 2010) meets dementia/mental illness yearly refresher requirement

NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS:

All of our on-line courses are also approved by the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB). Licensed nursing home administrators can complete our on-line courses to satisfy continuing education requirements. And we plan to add more courses in the upcoming year!

For $10 per credit hour, you can meet your training requirements from the convenience of own office or home.

It’s easy. Here are the steps:

1. Click the link below to view the list of available approved courses.

2. Decide which courses you want to complete by clicking the View Details button beside the courses. For the most cost savings, select the Injury Prevention for Older Adults Course Package.

3. Add the courses to your cart. If you want to train your staff too, simply type in the number of staff you want to train and you can view the group discounts. The more staff you train, the more you save.

4. Complete the secure checkout process. Along the way, you will create a username and password that you can use to access your courses throughout the year.

5. Once you complete the checkout, click on the On-Line Learning Center link to start your courses.

6. Take the courses at your convenience. They are available to you for 1 year from the date of purchase. Once you complete a course and posttest, a certificate will be generated for you on-line and you can print and save this certificate for your records. NOTE: Our courses require a high-bandwidth Internet connection.

Click on the link below to view our OHCQ and NAB approved on-line courses:

http://ltctrainer.com/department/online-courses-10000.cfm

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at the e-mail/phone number provided on the website. Thanks so much!