Illinois
Requirements for Licensure as a Nursing Home Administrator
Illinois Nursing Home Licensure Contact
Jim Koehl
Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation
Illinois NHA Licensing & Disciplinary Board
320 W. Washington St 3rd floor
Springfield, IL 62786
Phone: 217-782-6742
Fax: 217-782-7645
Illinois Nursing Home Education Requirements:
Baccalaureate degree or two years qualifying experience or diploma nurse program (3 years); or completion of approved course in nursing home administration; or associate degree with two years qualifying experience.
Illinois Nursing Home AIT Requirements:
None
Illinois Nursing Home National Exam Required?
Yes
Illinois Nursing Home State Exam Required?
Yes
Illinois Nursing Home Continuing Education Required?
36 hours biennially
Requirements for Qualification as an Assisted Living Administrator
Illinois Assisted Living: Contact
Jim Hanlon, Dept. Public Health, Tel. 217-782-2043 Fax 217-782-3987
Illinois Assisted Living: Dept. of Public Health, Div. of Administration, Rules and Procedures, 425 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, IL 62761
217-785-8830
Illinois Assisted Living: Code: Assisted Living Establishments. Senate Bill 743.
Illinois Assisted Living: Reimbursement: Medical Operations, IL. Dept. of Public Aid, 201 S. Grand Av., East, Springfield, IL 62763-0001
217-786-2570
Illinois Assisted Living: Administrator Overview
Must be 18. No other requirements.
College Coursework
Governors State University
Health Administration Program
Health and Human Services Division
University Park, IL 60406
Tel: (708) 534-4030
Contact faculty:
Edward Heler, Ph.D.
Program: NON-DEGREE
The University was founded in 1969 and is designed to serve undergraduate transfer students and those seeking master's degrees. The University offers a four course sequence for licensure examination preparation.
LTCA teaching faculty are
Professor Donna Gellathy
Professor Clementine Coleman
Professor Ed Mulder
Professor Walter Weutz
Illinois Central College
One College Drive
East Peoria, IL 61635-0001
Tel: (309) 694-5011 Fax: (306) 694-5450
Program: Associate, Certificate in Long-Term Health Care Management
Illinois Central College is a community college offering both the Associate in Applied Science Degree or a Certificate in Long-Term Health Care Management. This program is approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations for the satisfaction of the educational requirement for licensure as a long-term care facility administrator.
Certificate in Long-Term Health Care Management
The certificate program is intended primarily to prepare individuals who wish to pursue a career in long-term care administration. The long-term health care management certificate program is available on a continuing basis or students may take it on an intermittent basis.
Additional course work in each level requires course work from the accounting, aging process, business management, marketing, data processing, business communications, personnel management, ethics and humanities field. The degree program requires 64 semester hours minimum including the program core courses; the certificate requires 23 semester hours minimum including the program core courses.
Contact
Illinois Central College
Health Careers and Public Services Department
Room 203
Peoria Campus Thomas Bldg.
201 S.W. Adams Street
Peoria, IL 61635-0001
Tel: (309) 999-4600
Fax: (309) 673-9626
Northern Illinois University
School of Allied Health Professions
Public and Community Health Programs
DeKalb, IL 60115-2854
Tel: (815) 753-1384 Fax: (815) 753-0720
email: pchaniu.eduweb: undergraduate program- www.ahp.hhsweb.com/ch
graduate program- www.ahp.hhsweb.com/ph
Contact Faculty:
William A. Oleckno, HSD, Coordinator, Public and Community Health Programs
Program: NON-DEGREE (four courses) BACHELOR'S MASTER'S
Northern Illinois University offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health with emphasis in Health Administration and a Master of Public Health degree with a specialization in Health Services Management, both of which can include long-term care administration courses. The Illinois Nursing Home Administrators Licensing and Disciplinary Board has approved four courses, which can be taken alone or in conjunction with either of the aforementioned degree programs, to meet the requirements for licensure. The courses are:
- AHPH 456, Principles of Long-Term Care Administration;
- ACCY 288, Fundamentals of Accounting;
- AHPH 460 Principles of the Organization of Public Health and Health Care Programs; and
- SOCI 251 Health, Aging and Society
Teaching Faculty:
Ngoyi Bukonda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
James R. Ciesla, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Carolinda Douglass, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Julie R. Kraut, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University
Health Care Professions
Carbondale, IL 62901-6615
Tel: (618) 453-7211 Fax: (618) 453-7020
Contact person:
Frederic Morgan, Ed.D.,
Associate Professor and Chair
Health Care Professions
Email: fritzm@siu.edu
Program: BACHELOR'S
Southern Illinois University offers an undergraduate major in Health Care Management which can include nursing home management and meet the requirements to be eligible to take board examinations in Illinois for licensure as a nursing home administrator.
Teaching faculty:
Fred R. Isberner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Health Care Professions.
Linda Grace, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Health Care Professions.
Eileen Troutt-Eruih, Associate Professor, Health Care Professions.
James Sprouse, MHA, Assistant Professor, Health Care Professions