Our Health Care Group is a multi-disciplinary team that draws on the expertise of the firm’s business, bankruptcy, business litigation, creditors’ rights, employment, real estate and finance attorneys to serve health care clients. Although the Health Care Group has extensive depth and experience with regard to long-term care and senior housing, we also represent physicians and other providers. For nearly a decade, the Health Care Group’s Chair has been a senior officer and director of a prominent multi-state, long-term care company. This enables our Health Care Group to better analyze our clients’ issues from both a business and legal perspective. Consequently, we fully understand the issues facing this complex industry. Collectively the attorneys in the Health Care Group have over 125 years of experience counseling clients and offering practical solutions to their clients’ problems.

Chairs | Cases | Clients | Attorneys

The Health Care Group works with clients in the acquisition and divestiture of health care businesses, on financing transactions and with management agreements. We also help clients with the formation and governance of health care business entities.

We work closely with providers regarding resident admission and discharge, accounts receivable collection, compliance with evolving laws and risk management strategies, and we provide particularized training in these areas. Additionally, we counsel health care companies regarding their post-judgment options and risks in the event an adverse judgment is entered against them.

We also focus on employment issues specific to health care businesses, including the drafting of employment agreements and providing advice and training concerning hiring, evaluations, compensation, terminations, compliance with state and federal employment laws, and effective and accurate documentation. Our group’s trial attorneys are also experienced employment dispute litigators.

Some of the specific areas where we can help you include the following:

Areas of law
Purchase and Sale of Health Care Business
Operations Transfer Agreements
Management Agreements
Licensing and Certification
Health Care Regulatory Issues
Health Care Finance Issues
Landlord Tenant Issues for Health Care Facilities
Environmental Issues
HIPAA and HITECH Compliance and Business Associate Agreements
Collections for Long Term Care Facilities
Admission Agreements/Resident Handbooks
Arbitration Agreements
Assisted Living and Independent Living Resident Leases
Risk Management
Employment Law Issues, Compliance and Training
Employment Agreements for Health Care Executives
Physician Employment Agreements
Defense of Health Care Executives and Owners from Resident Care Claims
Board of Nursing Issues
Board of Nursing Home Administrators Issues
Health Care Contract Drafting
Health Care Contractual Disputes
Contracts Between Providers and Payors or Other Providers
Bankruptcy and ReceivershipIssues for Health Care Companies
Post-Judgment/Risk Analysis Assessment
Distressed Sales and Acquisitions

Practice Area Chair(s)
Aaron J. Besen

Cases associated with this practice area
Bankruptcy of Hospital
Collections of Accounts Receivable
Employment Claim Defense
ESOP Transaction
Hospital Acquisition
Line of Credit Facility
Nursing Home and Residential Care Transaction
Nursing Home Purchase Transaction
Nursing Home Sale and Leaseback Transaction
Nursing Home Sublease Transaction
Training Health Care Staff

Clients associated with this practice area
Artegan, Inc.
Avamere Healthcare Group
EHC Financial Services L.L.C. (fka Evergreen Healthcare Management, L.L.C.)
EmpRes Healthcare, Inc.
Interventional Angiography Associates P.C.
Lifestyles, Senior Housing Managers, L.L.C.
Oregon Health Care Foundation
The Goodman Group
University Radiologists, P.C.
Village Health Care

Attorneys practicing in this area
Besen, Aaron J. - Special Counsel
Brecht, Jeff D. - Special Counsel
Halligan, Michael G. - Partner
Honn, Darin D. - Partner
Sanchez, Gabriela - Attorney
Stilley, Thomas W. - Partner
Tarr, Jeffrey S. - Partner

Sussman Shank LLP
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Portland, Oregon 97205
Portland: (503) 227-1111
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Fax: (503) 248-0130
www.sussmanshank.com