For Partners
The infrastructure this sector cannot each build alone.
Health systems, LTACH chains, management companies, and post-acute investors do not each need to solve this problem from scratch. Here is why, and here is how organizations at every scale engage with it.
THE STRUCTURAL CASE
Why this is shared infrastructure, not a service you buy.
A relatively small number of national operators run a large share of the LTACH hospitals in the country. They can centralize regulatory affairs, education, quality, and reimbursement specialists and amortize that cost across a large portfolio. Most of the sector cannot. A three-hospital operator carries the same Conditions of Participation, the same payment rules, and the same clinical complexity, with far less base to spread that cost over. A single hospital inside a larger health system may have strong general education resources and nothing built for this specific patient population at all.
Solved independently, that problem means each organization separately building a regulatory curriculum, an LTACH-specific finance curriculum, a leadership competency model, a quality curriculum, an admissions curriculum, a reimbursement curriculum, a succession program, and a continuing education infrastructure, replicated dozens of times across a sector answering to the same standard every time. That is the same economic logic behind professional institutes in other specialized fields: work that only has to be defined once should not be built fifty separate times.
The LTACH Leadership Institute does that defining work once, independently, and builds outward from it. Today that means the CLLP credential and its preparation tracks. Organizations large enough to have already built strong internal programs are not excluded from this. They engage with it differently, as an external, independent standard that validates and benchmarks what they have already built, rather than a replacement for it.
Large LTACH systems
Validate and benchmark what you have already built. An independent, portable standard your own internal programs cannot issue on their own.
Midsize LTACH systems
Supplement what you cannot yet economically build in house. A standard for the parts of your portfolio your internal programs do not reach.
Small and independent LTACHs
Give your leaders access to LTACH-specific professional development that would otherwise be impossible for an organization your size to reproduce independently.
And for the individual leaders your organization employs, the credential is portable. It travels with them, so an investment in their development is not lost if they move within your own organization.
We work with organizations at every stage, from a single-facility LTACH sponsoring its first unit director through the CLLP, to a private equity portfolio seeking a scalable leadership development framework across 30+ facilities. Here is how we partner.
CLLP Enterprise Sponsorship
Sponsor your leaders through the CLLP certification program at a volume discount with dedicated cohort scheduling, progress reporting, and Founding Employer recognition.
Health systems, LTACH chains, and management companies developing multiple leaders.
- Volume pricing that deepens as candidate numbers rise
- Custom pricing for 20+ candidates annually
- Dedicated cohort scheduling, your team begins together
- Quarterly progress reports on candidate completion and certification status
- Founding Employer recognition on CLLPcertification.org for inaugural cohort sponsors
- Rate protection for a defined term, set out in each sponsorship agreement
Custom Education Programs
Bespoke leadership development programs designed for your organization's specific needs, delivered online, on-site, or as a hybrid. Built on the CLLP competency framework and adapted to your organizational context, regulatory environment, and workforce profile.
Organizations that need more than the standard CLLP program: for example, a chain undergoing rapid acquisition activity that needs a custom onboarding and leadership development program for newly acquired facility leaders, or a system preparing for a significant survey cycle.
- New leader onboarding programs for facility CEOs and COOs joining your portfolio
- Survey readiness leadership training for organizations with recent CMS deficiencies
- Custom interdisciplinary care team training for specific clinical improvement initiatives
- Executive leadership programs for regional VPs and corporate clinical leadership
Advisory and Consulting
Strategic advisory engagements drawing on the founder's experience as a hospital CEO and expertise in LTACH operations, leadership development, and organizational performance.
Private equity firms acquiring LTACH assets; health systems building or expanding LTACH programs; organizations facing leadership pipeline challenges or operational performance gaps.
- Leadership assessment and development planning for newly acquired LTACH portfolios
- LTACH operational review and leadership competency gap analysis
- Board and executive advisory on LTACH strategy and organizational performance
- Due diligence support for organizations considering LTACH acquisitions
Credentialing Board Service
For qualified LTACH practitioners, an invitation to serve on the CLLP Credentialing Board: the independent governing body that sets certification standards, validates the examination, and ensures the CLLP remains current and rigorous.
Active LTACH practitioners and individuals with prior LTACH executive or leadership experience who now serve in leadership roles across other healthcare settings, CEOs, CFOs, CNOs, clinical operations leaders, regulatory specialists, and healthcare attorneys with deep LTACH expertise, who are committed to raising the standard of the profession.
- Quarterly board meetings (virtual) and annual in-person convening
- Participation in examination blueprint review and standard-setting
- Review and adjudication of appeals and policy matters
- 5 CLLP CEUs per year of active service, automatically credited to CLLP renewal where applicable