North Carolina
Requirements for Licensure as a Nursing Home Administrator
North Carolina Nursing Home Licensure Contact
Jane A. Baker
North Carolina State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators
3733 National Drive #228
Raleigh NC 27612-4843
Phone: 919-571-4164
Fax: 919-571-4166
Email: ncbenha@mindspring.com
Website: www.ncbenha.org
North Carolina Nursing Home Education Requirements:
60 semester hours; 96 quarter hours - completion of prescribed course in basic nursing home administration. Two years of supervisory experience in a nursing home may be equated to one year of college.
North Carolina Nursing Home AIT Requirements:
Yes 480 - 2000 hours
North Carolina Nursing Home National Exam Required?
Yes
North Carolina Nursing Home State Exam Required?
Yes
North Carolina Nursing Home Continuing Education Required?
30 hours biennially
North Carolina Number Licensed Administrators:
875
North Carolina Number of NHA Licenses Issued Annually, Approximately:
65
North Carolina Number of Licensed Nursing Home Facilities:
415
Requirements for Qualification as an Assisted Living Administrator
Take LTCE 120 To Become Certified in North Carolina
North Carolina Assisted Living: Contact
Doug Barrick, Group Care Licensure Section, Tel. 919-733-6650 Fax 919-733-9379
North Carolina Assisted Living: Division of Facility Services, Domiciliary and Group Care Section, P.O. Box 29530, Raleigh, NC 29530
919-733-2342
North Carolina Assisted Living: Code: Assisted Living Residences Ch. 535, S.B., amending N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131D-2 et seq., Senate Bill 10 and House Bill 512, 1999
North Carolina Assisted Living: Reimbursement: Dept. of Human Services, 1985 Umstead Dr., P.O. Box 29529 Raleigh, NC 27626-0529
College Coursework
Methodist College
Charles M. Reeves School of
Business and Economics
5400 Ramsey St.
Fayetteville, NC 28305-1499
Tel: (910) 630-7047 / 7046 Fax: (910) 630-7046
Email: msullivan@methodist.edu (Michael H. Sullivan)
Web: www.methodist.edu/hca
Contact faculty:
Joseph F. Doll, M.B.A., LNHA
Director, Reeves School of Business
Program: BACHELOR'S
Methodist College's Reeves School of Business offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in health care administration of which long- term care administration is a sub-concentration. An Associate of Science (2 year) degree with a Concentration in Health Care administration is also offered.
Long term care courses are taught by:
Joseph F. Doll, Professor, M.B.A., NHA
Director, Reeves School of Business
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University of North Carolina -- Asheville
Health Care Administration Program
Department of Management
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-3299
Tel: (828) 251-6554 Fax: (828) 251-6857
Contact faculty:
Donald D. Lisnerski, Dr.P.H.
Professor of Management
Program: BACHELOR'S
The University of North Caroling - Asheville offers a long term care administration concentration within the Health Care Administration Program located in the Department of Management. A Bachelor of Science in Management degree is granted.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
706 Greenwood Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5923
Tel: (919) 815-0387 Fax: (919) 933-6825
Faculty contact:
James E. Allen, Ph.D., NHA
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Program: BACHELOR'S, TWO MASTER'S, TWO DOCTORAL CONCENTRATIONS
The University of North Carolina offers the long-term care administration concentrations in the Bachelor of Science of Public Health, at the undergraduate level, and Master of Science in Public Health and Master's in Health Care Administration degree at the graduate level. Both masters degrees require 51 hours over a two year period. The Bachelor's degree is a standard 120 hour degree. Internships done simultaneously under the university and the state licensing board, together with the long term care administration concentration in each of these degrees qualifies graduates to sit for the state board licensure exam in North Carolina.
Long-term care teaching faculty:
James E. Allen, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., NHA
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration