This course will present the legal and regulatory environment in which the long term care industry operates. Course coverage includes: litigation, constitutional law, torts, crimes, contracts, employment, property, and ethics. Students will examine these topics within the long term care context.

The purpose of this course is to provide you with practical legal knowledge of specific substantive business law topics and current legal trends and issues as they affect the long term care industry. This course is structured on the premise that legal knowledge is a personal and strategic asset. The student will secure the knowledge necessary to effectively work in private and public health care entities by acquiring a sound grasp of the relevant concepts, legal vocabulary, and rules of law that apply. The course provides the long-term benefit of spotting potential legal problems and issues.

At the conclusion of the course, students will have covered a substantial range of legal topics within the legal environment affecting the long term care industry. Students will have improved their deductive reasoning skills and knowledge of both basic and advanced topics within the subject matter presented. Students will be able to identify and analyze legal issues using sophisticated approaches to case studies. They will be taught traditional methods of legal analysis of case studies. Actual cases will be assigned to the students to analyze for the legal issues presented, the procedural and substantive laws pertaining to those issues, and undertake a thorough analysis of them.