He is the Associate Medical Director for Scripps Coastal Medical Center. He attends patients at about fifteen nursing homes and multiple assisted living and other residential care facilities within North County, and is the Medical Director at Las Villas de Carlsbad Health Center, a Skilled Nursing Facility and Continuing Care Retirement Community in Carlsbad. Dr. Steinberg is active in the American Medical Directors Association and will be the next Editor-in-Chief of their journal, Caring for the Ages. He is the president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, and is a member of the task force responsible for creating the California POLST form.