Setting the standard for Long-Term Acute Care Hospital leadership in America.
The LTACH Leadership Institute develops the credentials, curriculum, and competency standards that Long-Term Acute Care Hospital leaders across America have needed for decades — and that the healthcare industry has never provided.
Pilot cohort now forming — apply before the window closes.
One mission. Three capabilities.
The LTACH Leadership Institute develops the professional standards, educational programs, and credentialing infrastructure that LTACH leaders need to lead at the highest level — and that the healthcare industry needs to trust them when they do so.
Professional Credentialing
The CLLP™ — Certified LTACH Leadership Professional — is the first and only nationally recognized certification built exclusively for LTACH hospital leaders. Three tiers. One standard. A career-long credential that travels with you.
Learn about the CLLP™Leadership Education
Continuing education programs, live intensives, and structured curriculum designed specifically for the LTACH environment — not adapted from acute care, not recycled from nursing home administration. Built for LTACH from the ground up by practitioners who have led these facilities.
Industry Standards
Through the CLLP Credentialing Board and our Job Task Analysis research, we define what LTACH leadership excellence looks like — and we make that definition the basis for the credential that certifies it.
About our governanceWhy we exist
Built from the inside.
Matthew Hamilton, EdD, MBA
Founder & Chair, LTACH Leadership Institute
Long‑Term Acute Care Hospitals have operated for decades without a leadership credential aligned to the realities of their mission — and that absence has carried real consequences at the bedside, in the boardroom, and through every CMS survey cycle.
The LTACH Leadership Institute was founded by a former LTACH Chief Executive Officer who spent two decades leading these facilities through ventilator‑dependent care, medically complex populations, relentless regulatory scrutiny, and the reimbursement intricacy that defines the sector. He did not retrofit an existing credential from a different setting. He built one from the ground up — anchored in formal Job Task Analysis research, lived operational experience, and the judgment of practitioners who have spent their careers inside this environment.
The result is the CLLP™ — the only credential that reflects what it actually takes to lead a Long‑Term Acute Care Hospital.
Your organization. Our standard.
Health systems, LTACH chains, and post-acute management companies partner with the LTACH Leadership Institute to develop leadership at every level of their organizations — from unit directors to regional vice presidents. Enterprise sponsorship of the CLLP, custom education programs, and advisory services are available for qualifying organizations.
The CLLP™ — the only credential built exclusively for LTACH leaders.
Three tiers. Eight competency domains. One standard — designed for the clinical, regulatory, financial, and operational reality of Long-Term Acute Care Hospital leadership. The pilot cohort is now forming.
CLLP-Associate
Emerging leaders & charge nurses
CLLP
Directors & department heads
CLLP-Senior
CEOs, COOs & regional executives
The CLLP™ is administered by the LTACH Leadership Institute
For Physicians
The physician's path to the LTACH suite.
A medical degree establishes clinical authority. It does not, by itself, establish executive command of a hospital managing ventilator-dependent patients, high-mortality infectious syndromes, and epidemic-grade multidrug-resistant organisms under relentless CMS scrutiny — an environment where the margin for leadership failure is measured in patient outcomes. The CLLP closes that gap deliberately: it takes the physician's clinical foundation and builds the operational, regulatory, and financial command the chief executive role demands.
Earned, Not Assumed
Built for the transition. Not assumed into it.
Physicians who step into the LTACH environment enter one of the most demanding and high‑impact leadership arenas in American healthcare. These hospitals care for the sickest, most clinically complex patients in the post‑acute continuum — and they need physician executives who can lead with precision, acuity, and system‑level vision.
The CLLP™ is the national pathway for physicians who want to move from clinical mastery to executive command in this uniquely high‑acuity setting. It does not hand out titles or rely on past roles. It builds — and verifies — the leadership, operational, regulatory, and financial competencies LTACH boards expect from those who run their hospitals.
Every physician begins at the same starting point. Advancement through CLLP‑Associate, CLLP, and ultimately CLLP‑Senior is earned through documented LTACH experience, examination, and applied leadership work inside the environment itself. The tiers are not honorary; they are proof of capability.
CLLP-Associate
Entry Credential
CLLP
Professional Standard
CLLP-Senior
Executive Designation
By the time a physician reaches the senior designation, the credential signals to boards what matters most: this is a leader intentionally built for the LTACH environment — not a clinician credentialed elsewhere and asked to adapt.
For physicians who want to shape the LTACH of the future, lead high‑acuity systems, and bring clinical authority into the executive suite, the CLLP™ is the professional home built for them.