Can anyone help me find a free sample business plan for starting a nursing home?
I have come across several business plans for starting a nursing home, but none of them are free:
http://www.bplans.com/spv/3524/index.cfm?affiliate=pas
http://www.interstellar-solutions.co.uk/Nursing_Home_Business_Plan.html
I suggest you borrow from your library the following books to give you ideas of a nursing home business:
- How to Start and Manage a Nursing Home Care Business (by Jerre G. Lewis, Leslie D. Renn)
- Seniors’ Housing and Care Facilities: Development, Business, and Operations by Paul A. Gordon
- Senior Living Communities : Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing-Care Retirement Communities by Benjamin W. Pearce
- Analyzing Seniors’ Housing Markets by Susan B. Brecht
Developing Active Adult Retirement Communities by Diane R. Suchman
- Building Type Basics for Senior Living (Building Type Basics) by Bradford Perkins
- Design for Assisted Living : Guidelines for Housing the Physically and Mentally Frail by Victor Regnier
For general resources that can help you write your business plan:
- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm
- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html
You may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:
- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm
- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners
http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html
- VFinance – View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp
- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp
- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/
- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html
-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf
- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid
- Business Plans Index – A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html
Some recommended books are :
- Business Plans Kit for Dummies
- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan
- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide
- Business Plans For Dummies®
- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan
Hope that the above resources help
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