Five Star Physicians’ primary focus is delivering Five Star clinical care in skilled nursing communities.
What We Do
At Five Star Physicians, our mission is to deliver Five-Star clinical care within skilled nursing facilities. Skilled nursing communities are vital for those who need professional care but don’t require a hospital, such as individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and increasingly younger patients needing 24-hour care. Today’s skilled nursing facilities often resemble hospitals in the comprehensive care they provide, from nursing support to specialized services like podiatry, dental, physical, speech, and occupational therapy. Many also have post-acute care units for short-term recovery needs and specialized memory care units for Alzheimer’s and other cognitive conditions.
How We Help
Five Star Physicians enhances this level of care by providing experienced Medical Directors who lead and coordinate medical services across the facility. Our Attending Physicians deliver day-to-day clinical care within the Mid-Atlantic region.
Beyond patient care, we offer critical care consulting to help facilities refine their clinical operations, from data analysis to staff training and quality improvement programs. Together, we aim to create a care model that not only attracts residents and their families but also strengthens relationships with hospitals and healthcare partners. Quality care leads to quality outcomes, making a Five-Star rating a natural result. Delivering excellent care is simply our business.
What the Five Star Difference Means to Dr. Harold Bob
Five Star physicians and nurse practitioners work as an integral part of the professional team to optimize the quality of life within the post acute and long term care continuum.
Much has changed in the healthcare system over the past decade, and nursing homes are now staffed with Licensed Nurses, Social Workers, Physical, Occupational and Speech therapists, Pharmacists and other skilled highly trained professionals to make a plan of care for each person they are assisting.
While a decade ago, Nursing homes were lonely places with little hope, many post acute patients, after treatment at a hospital for an acute spell of illness, have their rehabilitation and transition to home and their normal life supported by a Skilled Nursing Community.
To support this process, just as hospitals have dedicated hospitalists, Skilled facilities dedicated to post-acute and long term care have Physicians and Nurse Practitioners who are not “office based” and dedicate their lives to care of patients needing community based care.
Sometimes, sadly, patients are unable to return home, and need long term care due to their dependency in basic aspects of life, or, faced with incurable disease. We can continue to care even when we cannot cure, and seek the maximize the autonomy and quality of life for each circumstance. Providing palliative care, often offers freedom from aggressive but futile debilitating processes, that should not supplant human hope that stems from faith, with futile procedures with little chance of success.
Five Star practitioners use the following tools as a part of their mission:
- Five Star practitioners are dedicated to community care and do not have an office practice that comes first. For us, our patients are all in our facilities and they are our mission.
- Five Star practitioners support the evidence based Clinical Practice Guidelines developed by AMDA – the society for post-acute and long term care, and works to implement AMDA best practices in our facilities.
- Five Star practitioners support the autonomy of patient based health care decisions, and strive to work with the team to communicate choices in developing each patient’s plan of care.
— Harold Bob, Five Star Physician Services
