Health Care

Flora Pettit’s attorneys possess a wide range of experience in supporting health care organizations, ranging from large hospital systems to long term care facilities, home health care providers, assisted living facilities, and senior living/retirement communities (including CCRC-registered communities), as well as physician and dental practices.

We assist our health care clients in addressing complex issues unique to the industry, including:

Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, Stark, anti-kickback, etc.)
Managed care issues
Patient and Resident care issues, such as informed consent, guardianship, Patient Bill of Rights, advance medical directives, and residence agreements
Physician recruiting and contracting
Practice transitions, mergers and separations
Risk management and professional liability defense
Credentialing and peer review
Clinical trials and contract research organizations
CCRC registration and disclosure statements

We also defend our health care clients in medical malpractice lawsuits in both state and federal courts. We have experience representing health care providers in a wide variety of specialties including general surgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, orthopedic surgery, and internal medicine.

We supplement this specialized expertise with a close-knit team of professionals from various other practice groups to support the more general needs of our health care industry clients, including:

Corporate formation, mergers, acquisitions and other general corporate support
Employee Benefits
Labor and Employment Matters
Real estate, including acquisitions, land use, development, leasing, and community associations
Construction
Federal, State and Local Tax Matters, including tax exemption, private inurement, and unrelated business income taxes
Litigation
Financing, including tax-exempt bond transactions
Intellectual Property
Cybersecurity
Strengthening Foundations and Fundraising for Charities
General contract and general counsel services