Financial Management Training for Ontario LTC Leaders

This nine-hour course offers a comprehensive introduction to Ontario long-term care funding and reporting basics, along with important updates that will impact your work in 2025 and beyond. Updated annually and delivered by Ministry officials and experts, this popular course provides reliable, up-to-date information for Ontario LTC leaders.
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  • Funding & Budgeting

    Get a basic understanding of Ontario LTC funding envelopes and learn best practices for budgeting and reporting. Topics include per diem funding, occupancy and cash flow policies, and much more.

  • Standards & Benchmarking

    Review Ontario's long-term care annual reporting process, find out how to best manage bad debt, and learn how to work with the Ontario Health Care Reporting Standards (OHRS) and other essential datasets.

  • Leveraging Data

    Learn how to use data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, review the Case Mix Index, and learn to use and interpret the Resident Assessment Instrument.

Course Curriculum

This course was recorded live online in September 2024. It includes nine hours of on-demand learning.

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    • A Message from Learning Hub Sponsor GoEasyCare

    • Funding Basics and Budgeting Best Practices (3 hours)

    • The Finer Details of Reporting: Processes and Bad Debt Management (3 hours)

    • Using Data to Inform Budgeting and Financial Planning (3 hours)

    • Survey

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Instructors

Jonathon Bingeman

Vice President, Finance & Digital Transformation, Providence Care Centre

Abonti Mukherjee

Senior Financial Policy Advisor, Financial Policies and Procedures Unit, MOLTC

Abonti Mukherjee joined the Funding and Programs Branch at the Ministry of Long-Term Care in 2021. Since then, she has worked closely on the LTC Rate Reduction Program which helps subsidize the cost of long-term care for low-income seniors, as well as other initiatives to support long-term care residents.

Yoseph Asfaw

Acting Business Advisor Data Standards Unit, Health Data Branch at the Ministry of Health

Yoseph provides support to ensure long-term care homes understand the Ontario Healthcare Reporting Standards (OHRS) requirements for the Trial Balance data submission.  With over 16 years of experience working on long term care data collection and reporting, project management and data standards, he was recently assigned to supporting priority COVID-19 related data collection projects where he has been instrumental in working with stakeholders on data definitions/standards to support Ontario data requirements. 

Blu Desrosiers

Finance Manager, Sherwood Park Manor

Amit Joshi

Director, IT Innovation, Data Analytics & Capital Development, AdvantAge Ontari

Melissa Norman

Manager, Quality Improvement and RAI, The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre

Melissa Norman is the Director of Quality and Interprofessional Care at Perley Health, a community of care in Ottawa Ontario, that is home to more than 600 Seniors and Veterans in long-term care and in independent apartments. For the last 15 years, Melissa has held a variety of professional and leadership roles at Perley Health, all of which focused on quality improvement, risk and performance management and operational excellence. Melissa earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and a Master of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Melissa has completed several certifications and advanced training programs, including LEAN green belt certification, IDEAS Advanced Training Program in Quality Improvement, and Specialist Knowledge Translation Training.

Mark Schroter

Team Lead, Financial Policies and Procedures Unit, Funding and Programs Branch, MOLTC

Mark is the team lead of the Financial Policies and Procedures Unit in the Funding and Programs Branch at MLTC.  He has worked in the Ontario Public Service for ten years, with previous roles at Treasury Board Secretariat and the Ministry of Health.

Richard G. Lee

Business and Fiscal Planning Advisor, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Long-Term Care

Richard Lee is a Business and Fiscal Planning Advisor with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Long-Term Care. He is a CPA CMA and has over 10 years of experience administering funding to the long-term care home sector. Richard organizes the development and implementation of  the Subsidy Calculation Worksheet, Annual Reconciliation Report and Overall Reconciliation in accordance with new, discontinued and revised long-term care home financial policies. He is contacted regularly by the sector for guidance on the ministry’s long-term care home financial regulations, polices and processes.

Sudha Krishnan

Senior Methodologist, Health Sectors Models Branch, Hospitals and Capital Division, Ministry of Health

Sudha is a Senior Methodologist working in Health Sector Models Branch in Ministry of Health. She has over 10 years of knowledge of and solid experience in LTCH & homecare sectors.