When an LTC administrator is leaving the LTC

[Blackcat99]

I keep seeing "want ads" for a "new administrator at my LTC. I had heard that when an administrator is leaving a LTC that is usually means that the LTC is in "big trouble" and that perhaps the state is getting ready to shut down that particular LTC facility. Do you think that tends to be true? Many many years ago I worked at an LTC and after the administrator left they closed down the LTC permanently a week later. I am not a DON or ADON. Thanks for any insights.

[Nascar nurse, ASN, RN]

Not true at all....at least in my area. In my experience the really good administrators are hunted by other companies and offered big bucks to make a change (to the tune for to much money to pass up sometimes). The really bad administrators tend to stay until FINALLY corporate decides to come in and fire them.

Been at my new job for 2 months now. I seem to have a good administrator - 10 years from retirement - has always lived locally - has immediate family in the same town he seems very close to & seems to have already have played and won the money game. Just looking to cruise thru the next 10 years. Lucky me (keeping fingers crossed).

[SuzieVN]

Last place I was at went through five admins and five DONs in a year. The survey was adequate. It was strictly corporate politics. Good/bad/ugly/GeorgeClooneyGorgeous, makes no difference in whether the management team gets canned, in the majority of those places. I've been in places that have been so bad, so deficient, they were put on bed hold (meaning, not allowed to admit patients, such as Medicare, until the violations were corrected), and the administrators remained in place, unscathed. In another, the day after a 100% deficiency free survey, corporate hacks escorted the administrator out of the building, while telling him 'thanks for cleaning the place up, now we found a new adminstrator to work for half your pay'...

[Blackcat99]

OMG!!! An administrator can do a great job and still get fired! That was shocking to hear about them getting rid of that administrator after a 100% deficiency free survey!!!

[SuzieVN]

it's prolly not too shocking to a lot of readers, in here. In the corporate world of nursing homes, there's really not much correlation between a survey report and job security. It's more politics than anything else. That, and the ability to continously find ways to save yet another dime- and in fact? It costs extra money to go the extra mile to get a pretty survey. That's reason enough to get yourself canned!

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

Many reasons other than your suspected one. Very likely, the departure has nothing to do with a closing.