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

Whether New Hampshire 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 in New Hampshire under RSA 329 or 326-B.

Duties the rule assigns

  • Implementation of resident care policies and coordination of medical care in the facility (per the rule's own definition of the role)
  • Serves as one of the minimum 3 members of the facility's quality-improvement committee, alongside a nursing representative and an administration representative

Notes

Applies to licensed nursing homes only (He-P 803). NH's separate assisted-living-residence/residential-care rule (He-P 804) is genuinely ambiguous: its fine schedule references a possible 'change in... medical director,' but the operative notice-of-change provision it cites (He-P 804.08(i)) only actually addresses the administrator โ€” suggesting the role may be optional there rather than a codified requirement. A human should confirm this with the NH Dept. of Health and Human Services directly.

Sources (1)

Every agreement New Hampshire names ยท Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home in other states