One standard for LTACH leadership. You decide what it measures.
The CLLP Blueprint Survey is open. It asks the people who do this work to rate the tasks that define competent leadership in a long-term acute care hospital, and to weight them against each other. The results set the content of the certification examination.
Begin the surveyFour to five minutes. Desktop or laptop recommended.
There is no national leadership credential for long-term acute care hospitals. The CLLP is the first, and it is being built the way defensible credentials are built: a panel of LTACH subject matter experts wrote the task list, and a broad survey of the field now validates it. Whatever the field rates as critical is what the examination will cover. Whatever it does not, the examination will not.
If you know this work, your judgment counts
Long-term acute care is not run by one discipline, and it is not run from inside the building alone. The survey is open to anyone whose work gives them a real view of what it takes to lead an LTACH well.
Inside the hospital
Nursing, medicine, therapy, respiratory care, finance, revenue cycle, quality, risk, case management, health information, materials management, plant operations, infection prevention, pharmacy, dietary, human resources, and administration. Leadership in an LTACH is held across all of them.
Working with and for the hospital
Physicians and advanced practice providers who round in these hospitals. Referring hospital case managers and discharge planners. Contracted clinical service providers. Corporate and multi-facility support teams. Consultants, advisors, and others who work alongside LTACHs closely enough to see what separates a well-run one from a poorly run one.
You do not need a title, a degree, or a set number of years. You need to know the work.
Where your ratings go
They set the content
You will rate each task on how critical it is to competent LTACH leadership and how often it comes up. Those two ratings are combined, with criticality weighted more heavily, to determine how much of the examination each area of practice receives.
They set the weight
The examination has a fixed number of questions. Every question one area gains, another gives up. The survey is where that allocation is decided, and it is decided by the field rather than by the Institute.
They can add to it
The survey carries task statements proposed after the original panel met. Respondents rate those on the same scale as everything else. If the field rates them in, they are in.
Before you start
- Four to five minutes.
- Use a desktop or laptop if you can. One section asks you to distribute weight across areas of practice, and a large screen makes that section considerably easier.
- You can move backward. If you want to revise an earlier answer, the survey lets you go back.
- Two questions are optional: the credentials you hold and your highest level of education. Everything else is required.
- You do not have to be an expert in every area. Rate what you know from your own work and experience. That is exactly what the analysis is designed to capture.
Forward it
The blueprint is only as good as the range of people who weigh in. If you know someone whose judgment about this work you respect, send them the link. There is no list to be on and no invitation required. Anyone who knows LTACHs can answer.
Recognition for participating
Blueprint survey participants are recorded as contributors to the founding standard. Participation carries a certificate of participation from the LTACH Leadership Institute, and a founding discount on the CLLP examination fee for participants who go on to certify.
Recognition is tied to completing the survey. It is not tied to any answer you give, and no response affects eligibility for the credential.
How your responses are handled
The survey is administered by Alpine Testing Solutions, an independent psychometric firm engaged by the Institute to conduct the job task analysis and the examination blueprint. Responses are analyzed and reported in aggregate. Individual responses are not shared with any hospital or with any employer.
This is not a sales inquiry. No one will call you. The Institute will not use your response to contact you about programs, and answering does not add you to a marketing list.
Where the tasks came from
The task statements in this survey were written by a panel of LTACH subject matter experts. The panel included hospital chief executives, chief nursing officers, chief financial officers, chief information officers, medical directors, respiratory therapy, quality and clinical leadership, and business development. The survey now puts their work in front of the wider field.
Questions
No. The survey is open to anyone whose work gives them a real view of what it takes to lead one, whether they sit inside the hospital or work alongside it.
No. Whether you ever pursue the credential has no bearing on your response or on how it is used.
No. There are no right answers. The survey asks for your judgment about the work, not your knowledge of it.
Yes, and please do. The broader the range of people represented, the better the blueprint reflects the real work.
The standard is being written now
The CLLP will be the first national leadership credential for long-term acute care hospitals. What it measures is being decided in this survey, once, and then it is settled.
Begin the surveyFour to five minutes.