title: The role of the nursing home medical director.
abstract: The nursing home medical director faces many overlapping responsibilities. Fostering the development of an interdisciplinary team provides a means of maximizing the influence of the medical director. Setting standards of care and humanizing life in the nursing home are other tasks of the medical director.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008486:Physician Executives; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012017:Referral and Consultation