Sys Director Sr Counsel

At the heart of CommonSpirit Healths ministry are the national office departments that provide the foundational support resources and expertise that empower local communities to focus on what they do bestcaring for patients. Our teams bring together expertise in clinical excellence operations finance human resources legal supply chain technology and mission integration.

Guided by our faith-based values the national office fosters consistency alignment and innovation across CommonSpirit. By centralizing expertise and leveraging economies of scale we enable each location to operate efficiently while maintaining flexibility to address unique local community needs. From advancing digital solutions to driving health equity these departments extend the healing presence of humankindness everywhere we serve.

Location: The attorney may work remotely; the preference is for a lawyer located in Arkansas with sufficient proximity to access Hospital and ambulatory locations within the Market.

Job Summary / Purpose

The Legal Operations Senior Counsel provides a general array of direct high-level legal services and serves as a thought-leader and trusted advisor primarily to the Arkansas Market in CommonSpirits South Region. Work may include regional delivery systems acute care facilities other inpatient or outpatient/ambulatory operations system-level functions service lines or related activities working independently or with minimal supervision in a manner consistent with CommonSpirits mission vision and values.

Essential Functions

• Perform direct consistent high-level legal services for represent and support CommonSpirits Arkansas Market. Direct legal services will include but not be limited to: preparation review and revision of complex non-physician agreements and complex physician agreements (using templates adopted by the Legal Team as appropriate); and provision of sophisticated legal counsel and guidance relating to health care operational issues including patient consent bioethics risk management medical staff licensing and certification policies contractual arrangements (rights and responsibilities) regulatory requirements Stark and Anti-Kickback compliance and other areas of health care operations subject to state and federal laws and regulations.
• Serve as a legal subject matter expert capable of providing sophisticated legal advice to Arkansas Market leadership management boards and committees as well as to other members of the Legal Team and be knowledgeable about other health care laws applicable to CommonSpirit.
• Develop and maintain subject matter expertise in one or more health care operations law substantive areas supported by the Legal Team and use this expertise for the benefit of CommonSpirit. This will include serving as a subject matter expert on one or more areas of health care operations law to assist other members of the Legal Team as well as members of CommonSpirit business operations across the enterprise.
• Actively engage and coordinate with other Legal Team members as needed for effective delivery of health care legal operations services across the enterprise.
• Supervise direct manage and collaborate with junior attorneys paralegals executive assistants and other Legal Team support staff.
• Manage and evaluate outside counsel engaged to provide health care operations-related legal support.
• Prepare review and revise corporate documents (e.g. articles of incorporation and bylaws) and assist with internal CommonSpirit approval processes (e.g. Governance Matrix Approval and Signature Authority Policy etc.) for the Arkansas Market.
• Manage and assist with Arkansas litigation administrative proceedings and other regulatory (including licensure and certification) proceedings or matters.

Education and Experience

Experience Details -Juris Doctorate

Equivalent degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.

Arkansas License preferred

Required - Eight (8) years legal work experience either with a law firm or in-house legal department involving the performance of general operational or specialty legal services for hospitals health systems medical foundations or groups clinics providers health care delivery organizations or integrated delivery systems.

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