🏥 Long-Term Care / Assisted Living / Group Home · Oklahoma
Oklahoma: medical director for a long-term care / assisted living / group home
Whether Oklahoma requires a physician medical director for a long-term care / assisted living / group home, the qualifications, duties and the rule it comes from.
Qualifications
Oklahoma-licensed MD or DO. For assisted living specifically, the directing physician must have NO financial interest in the facility.
Duties the rule assigns
- Direct and supervise resident medical care (assisted living, 63 O.S. § 1-865.21)
- Conduct pre-admission medical examinations, or arrange for another physician with no financial interest in the facility to do so (assisted living)
- Coordinate medical services within the facility (nursing/specialized facilities, OAC 310:675-13-4)
Notes
Two distinct, separately-codified requirements bundled here: (1) 63 O.S. § 1-865.21 requires assisted-living-facility medical care to be under a physician with no financial stake in the facility — this is an assisted-living-TIER requirement, not merely an echo of the federal nursing-home rule; (2) OAC 310:675-13-4 separately requires nursing/specialized facilities to designate a medical director, which tracks the federal SNF requirement (42 CFR 483.75(i)) already in force nationwide.
Sources (2)
- 63 Okla. Stat. § 1-865.21 (Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act)
- Okla. Admin. Code 310:675-13-4 — Medical director (Nursing and Specialized Facilities)secondary
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