Does a long-term care / assisted living / group home in Nevada need a medical director?

Yes. The rule calls the role Medical Director. Physician licensed to practice medicine in Nevada.

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Nevada: medical director for a long-term care / assisted living / group home

Whether Nevada requires a physician medical director for a long-term care / assisted living / group home, the qualifications, duties and the rule it comes from.

Medical directorMedical director required

Title in the ruleMedical Director

Research date2026-09-03

Qualifications

Physician licensed to practice medicine in Nevada.

Duties the rule assigns

Carries out the facility's policies related to the medical care of its patients
Coordinates the medical care provided by the facility

Notes

Applies to licensed facilities for skilled nursing (NAC 449.74513). NV's separate 'Residential Facilities for Groups' rule (assisted living, NAC 449.7042 et seq.) and 'Homes for Individual Residential Care' have no equivalent medical-director requirement — confirmed by a full-text search of those chapters finding zero hits for the term. Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (a separate NV facility type) also have no medical-director requirement in their own subchapter.

Sources (1)

NAC 449.74513 (Medical director)

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