No matter what technology caregivers use to provide the best of care, health outcomes in today’s world are still heavily dependent on the human factor. This may be part of what makes one’s intersection with the health-care industry precarious—but it is also what makes it special.

For the medical director or full-time physician responsible for the majority of patients in a nursing home, showing up to meet the staff on all shifts becomes an important part of the job if consistency and high quality of care are the goal.

The government has made medical directors responsible for the quality of care at nursing homes but these doctors’ roles are often sidetracked in a shuffle of paperwork and communication barriers between nurses and administrators.

Patient’s case of neurosarcoidosis proves to be a good example of why doctors working alongside NPs and PAs in both the hospital and the nursing home setting provide the best response to quality-of-care outcomes.