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🏥 Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home · Illinois

Illinois: medical director and delegated services for a long-term care, assisted living or group home

Whether Illinois requires a physician medical director for a long-term care, assisted living or group home, the qualifications, duties, and what the state says about the staff who deliver protocol-driven services.

Medical directorMedical director required
Title in the ruleAdvisory Physician / Medical Advisory Committee
Research date2026-09-03

Qualifications

One or more Illinois-licensed physicians; skilled nursing facilities specifically must maintain a medical advisory committee of two or more physicians (a facility's own employed house physician may serve as one committee member).

Duties the rule assigns

  • Advise the facility administrator on overall medical management of residents and staff
  • Approve the facility's medical program in writing

Notes

This is a committee/advisory-physician model, not necessarily one named 'Medical Director,' and is codified for skilled nursing/intermediate care facilities licensed under 77 IAC 300 (Nursing Home Care Act). It is NOT confirmed to extend to assisted living (210 ILCS 9) or ID/DD group homes (CILAs), which instead require only a treating/responsible physician for medical services, not a designated director or committee — verify facility-type licensure category before relying on this for a non-SNF/ICF setting.

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Every clinician in Illinois · Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home in other states