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The Role of Practitioners and the Medical Director

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Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine

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The role of nursing facilities within the US health care system continues to change. Traditionally, nursing facilities had primarily provided personal and nursing care to cognitively and functionally impaired elderly residents. Today, while nursing facilities continue to provide this residential care, they now admit many medically complex patients for short stays. Both long-term care residents and post-acute care patients are often medically unstable and have multi-morbidities as well as risk factors for geriatric syndromes such as pressure injuries, anorexia, and falls. Managing these patients requires proficient clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills. In turn facilities must be well organized and capable in assessing and managing patients and actively engage the medical director in the oversight of the facility clinical processes and practice.

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    Steven A. Levenson

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  1. Family and Preventive Medicine, OU Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    Peter Winn

  2. The University of Pennsylvania, Jenkintown, PA, USA

    Pamela A. Fenstemacher

  3. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Richard G. Stefanacci

  4. Department of Geriatrics, Penn Medicine, Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA, USA

    R. Scott DeLong

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Levenson, S.A. (2023). The Role of Practitioners and the Medical Director. In: Winn, P., Fenstemacher, P.A., Stefanacci, R.G., DeLong, R.S. (eds) Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Current Clinical Practice. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28628-5_6

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