🏥 Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home · California
California: what a medical director of a long-term care / assisted living / group home must do
Whether California requires a physician medical director for a long-term care / assisted living / group home, the qualifications you need, and the duties the rule assigns.
Qualifications
A physician licensed to practice medicine in California.
Duties the rule assigns
- Implementation of resident care policies
- Coordination of medical care in the facility
Notes
SECONDARY SOURCE / NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED THIS PASS: no full-text mirror of 22 CCR (Westlaw/OAL, Cornell LII, regs aggregators) was reachable this session. Relying on widely-cited secondary characterization of 22 CCR § 72501 for skilled nursing facilities — NOT confirmed to extend to RCFEs/assisted living (a distinct, CDSS-regulated license type). Confirm current text before production use.
Sources (1)
- Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 72501 (Medical Director, Skilled Nursing Facilities) — citation not independently re-verified this pass, see notes
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