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Rhode Island: medical director and delegated services for a long-term care, assisted living or group home
Whether Rhode Island 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.
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), which 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) appear to carry no equivalent medical-director mandate; treat that tier as unsettled rather than a settled absence.
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