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Lakeland Healthcare Center boards sets 2025 budget goals, considers raising census target for 2026 after occupancy gains
Summary
Trustees were told leadership aims to hold FTE counts steady and bring a 2025 budget under previous targets; rising census (87 on meeting day) prompted staff to propose raising the 2026 planning census from 84 to 85 to reflect higher occupancy and revenue.
Lakeland Healthcare Center staff told the Board of Trustees on July 16 that they are developing a budget designed to avoid increasing full-time equivalent (FTE) staff and to come in below the 2025 budgeted totals.
Why it matters: staffing and census assumptions drive long-term care facility revenue and expense projections and affect decisions about overtime, temporary hours and program capacity.
Budget goals and assumptions: the presenter said the facility’s budget-development goal is twofold: not to increase FTE count at LHCC and to come in under the 2025…
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