🏥 Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home · Rhode Island
Rhode Island: what a medical director of a long-term care / assisted living / group home must do
Whether Rhode Island 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
Physician licensed to practice in Rhode Island.
Duties the rule assigns
- Coordinate medical care in the nursing facility
- Ensure employee health screening/immunization completion
- Implement nursing facility medical policies and procedures
- Credential physicians and advanced practice practitioners
- Review practitioner performance
- Oversee employee health and infection control
- Evaluate health care delivery, including oversight of medical records
- Provide staff education on medical issues
- Participate in state survey processes and deficiency resolution
- Attend quarterly quality assurance/improvement meetings
Notes
CONFIRMED for nursing facilities specifically (216-RICR-40-10-1.13) — tracks the federal SNF requirement (42 CFR 483.75(i)) already in force nationwide. Rhode Island's separately-licensed assisted living residences (216-RICR-40-10-2, §§2.1-2.6) were checked and appear to carry no equivalent medical-director mandate — treat that tier as an open question pending direct confirmation of the full section text, not a settled absence.
Sources (1)
Every agreement Rhode Island names · Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home in other states