Elevate Your Leadership. Transform Your Impact.

Join a powerful, immersive experience built to strengthen your leadership skills, enhance process improvement strategies, and connect you with a supportive community of peers. 

This transformative journey is designed to accelerate both your personal growth and professional success, giving you the tools, confidence, and connections to lead with purpose and drive lasting change in long-term care.

About the Program

• The Nursing Home Leader Academy (NHLA) is a nine-month, immersive leadership experience specifically designed for nursing home administrators and Directors of Nursing (DONs).
• It is tailored to elevate leadership skills, enhance, process improvement, and foster a supportive peer-to-peer learning community.
• The goal: to directly improve nusring home quality outcomes and boost operational success.

What Participants Gain

• Targeted Leadership Development: Engage in hands-on exerises and meaningful discussions on leadership essentials relevant to the long-term care invironment.
• Expert-Led Coaching: Receive personalized support and mentoring from experienced skilled nursing faculty who understand your challenges.
• Real-World Project Support: Get guidance throughout a project, with tools and strategies to help you implement meaningful change in your facility.
• Peer Collaboration: Build lasting connections with fellow participants through structured collaboration and shared learning experiences.
• Continuing Education Credit: Earn up to 28 Continuing Education (CE) Credits upon completing the program.

All-Inclusive Benefits
Your tuition includes complimentary registration to the following Premier events:

• CAHF Spring Advocacy Day
• CAHF/QCHF Summer Conference
• CAHF Annual Convention and Expo

Special Scholarship Opportunity
Applicants from 1-2 Star facilities (Administrators or DONs) are eligible for a scholarship. Simply check the box on the application to be considered.

Bottom Line
The NHLA is not just a training. It's a transformational journey designed to share the next generation of long-term care leaders.

What Graduates Are Saying:

• "The knowledge and experience from the program instructors on leadership and its relation to our job and struggles was refreshing."

• "I am grateful for all of the help, materials, literature and reminders throughout the program."

• "I was able to walk away with different ways to communicate as a leader."

• "This program gives a lot of exposure to various tools and strategies. Very-well organized!"

• "I have learned a lot about how to approach staff, create better outcomes and how to manage staff interactions."