Skilled Nursing News August 5, 2024
The post-acute care landscape is evolving, redefining the role of medical directors. Increased regulatory measures and heightened expectations of post-acute facilities have raised the importance of, and attention on, medical directors, placing them in an even greater position of organizational influence.
Post-acute medical directors must bring a high level of knowledge to meet the clinical demands of an aging population and the administrative and multidisciplinary understanding to improve facility and patient outcomes.
“The expectations that medical directors face in our post-acute care space right now are to be as knowledgeable as they can be,” says Dr. Esperanza Fernandez, national director of clinical education in post-acute care at TeamHealth.
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