Caring For the Community You Love
Choose a career to make a difference in peoples lives every day choose FisherTitus!
Perks of working at FisherTitus:
- Hours of Work Full time
- Comprehensive Benefits Package Medical & Dental coverage 401K match paid time off tuition assistance and more!
- Shift Weekend & PRN differential
About FisherTitus:
FisherTitus proudly serves the greater Huron County areas 70000plus residents by providing a full continuum of health and wellness care from heart and cancer care to outpatient services such as lab imaging and physical rehabilitation.
Vision: Be the first choice for healthcare and employment within our community
Mission: Deliver compassionate and convenient care to the highest level of excellence that promotes lifelong health and wellness for our community
General Summary:
The General Counsel provides legal guidance to the President & CEO Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors of FisherTitus Health. Serves as inhouse counsel on policies governance contracts accreditation and risk management. Engages and manages external counsel.
Essential Functions:
- Leads performs and sources legal work necessary to research draft negotiate and analyze various contracts policies and other legal documents and to advise internal clients. (Legal work includes M&A and other corporate transaction documents real estate leases property and asset acquisitions purchasing joint ventures managed care physician services licenses and other intellectual property agreements academic affiliations employment and financing and bond documentation. Drafts and reviews contracts leases and agreements prior to .
- Engages and serves as liaison with outside counsel as needed.
- Provides counsel on health care laws including those on privacy Medicare Medicaid and other government programs fraud and abuse physician selfreferral and antikickback laws and EMTALA. Ensures proper reporting to the duly authorized enforcement agencies or the OIG as appropriate or required.
- Provides counsel on health care laws including those on privacy Medicare Medicaid and other government programs fraud and abuse physician selfreferral and antikickback laws and EMTALA. Ensures proper reporting to the duly authorized enforcement agencies or the OIG as appropriate or required.
- Assists with issues concerning corporate governance.
- Manages general liability and medical malpractice claims and litigation with outside counsel and insurance carriers. Assists in identifying actions that can be taken to minimize organizational risk and liability.
- Leads efforts to assess and settle claims and litigation.
- Assists with employment litigation including Workers Compensation matters.
- Assists with real estate transactions.
- Provides legal guidance and collaborates on medical staff matters bylaws patient care with significant medicallegal dimensions and legal matters related to the provision of care.
- Provides advice and assistance to physicians and staff concerning patients advance directives.
- Prepare annual report concerning contractual arrangements for patient care services as required forth by the HFAP and CMS.
- Carries out special projects as assigned.
Requirements:
- Requires an L.L.B. or Doctorate of Jurisprudence; admission to the Ohio Bar; familiarity with contract and employment law regulations with five years of experience in the practice of healthcare law corporate law labor relations or a closely related field.
- Five years of experience or a demonstrated knowledge of the service/healthcare industry and human resources management skills.
- Demonstrated use of high level of organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise attention to detail and appropriate degree of persuasiveness.