Introducing the CLLP™
The first certification built exclusively for LTACH leaders.
The LTACH Leadership Institute builds, awards, and stewards the CLLP™ — the first competency‑based, practitioner‑led certification designed for the uniquely demanding clinical and operationally intricate US Long‑Term Acute Care Hospital model, defined by critical life‑support dependency, multi‑tier regulatory‑compliance obligations, and the essential command of complex financial‑governance systems.
The problem we are solving
Every other healthcare credential was built for a different setting.
Skilled nursing credentials were built for nursing homes. Acute‑care programs were built for general hospitals. Neither was built for the world an LTACH leader actually inhabits — where ventilator‑dependent patients face high‑mortality, advanced multi‑system infectious deterioration driven by epidemic‑grade multidrug‑resistant organisms such as carbapenem‑resistant Enterobacterales, MRSA, VRE, and Clostridioides difficile; where ICU‑level hospital care extends for weeks or months; where CMS regulatory exposure is uniquely complex; and where the margin for leadership failure is measured in patient outcomes.
The result: LTACH administrators and directors have been leading one of healthcare's most demanding environments with credentials designed for someone else's job. Until now.
Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals operating in the United States
Certifications in the US built specifically for LTACH leadership until the CLLP™
The cost of a single condition-level survey deficiency in remediation, lost reimbursement, and jeopardized LTACH status — the kind of failure leadership competency prevents.
One credential. Three levels. A career-long companion.
The Three-Tier CLLP Credential System
The CLLP™ is structured in three tiers — each designed for a distinct stage of LTACH leadership development. Whether you are stepping into your first supervisory role or leading a regional portfolio of facilities, there is a CLLP designation built for where you are and where you are going.
For charge nurses, coordinators, and new supervisors entering LTACH leadership. Foundational competency in LTACH clinical operations, regulatory requirements, and people management.
Explore all three tiersFor unit directors, department heads, and mid-level administrators. The professional standard for LTACH leadership — comprehensive, rigorous, and nationally recognized.
Explore all three tiersFor CEOs, CFOs, COOs, regional vice presidents, and executive directors. The pinnacle of LTACH leadership credentialing — for those who set the standard others follow.
Explore all three tiersGoverned by practitioners. Not academics.
The CLLP Credentialing Board.
The CLLP™ is governed by an independent Credentialing Board of active LTACH practitioners and individuals with prior LTACH executive experience — CEOs, clinical operations leaders, regulatory experts, and patient advocates who have spent careers in this setting. They set the standards. They validate the exam. They ensure the CLLP remains current, rigorous, and relevant.
Founding board members will be announced in 2026.
Learn about the InstituteThe CLLP™ pilot cohort is forming now.
Be among the first LTACH leaders to earn the CLLP designation. Pilot cohort candidates receive priority access, founding member recognition, and a significantly reduced certification fee.
For health systems and LTACH operators
Your leaders are ready to be developed. We built the program to do it.
Health systems that invest in leadership development retain more staff, achieve stronger quality outcomes, improve operational and financial performance, and build organizational cultures that attract talent. The CLLP provides LTACH operators with a structured, integrated leadership-development ecosystem for preparing and advancing leaders at every level, from charge nurse to regional vice president, while strengthening the leadership capabilities that support efficiency, risk reduction, revenue protection, and sustainable profitability.