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Associate Vice President/General Counsel Position Summary
Reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Associate Vice President/General Counsel advises TidalHealth and its subsidiaries on legal matters affecting the Systems’ hospitals, joint ventures, ambulatory campuses and programs, residency programs, physician practices, and other clinical and non-clinical operations. Specifically, the AVP/GC provides guidance, direction, and assistance in connection with a myriad of agreements and a broad range of health care, employment, fraud and abuse, regulatory, M&A, property, and litigation matters.
Associate Vice President/General Counsel Position Requirements
Experience:
The successful candidate will have at least ten (10) years of broad-based experience in healthcare law gained at a major law firm and/or in an in-house counsel role at a hospital, health system, or healthcare organization. This individual will bring strong transactional experience including mergers, acquisitions, health care fraud and abuse, nonprofit, and physician contracting.
Responsibilities:
Education Requirements:
Bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degree required.Licensure/Certification Requirements:
Must be licensed to practice law in Maryland and Delaware at the time of employment, or be able to become licensed no later than one (1) year after becoming employed by TidalHealth.Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
Clear and honest communication with leaders, requiring confidence, substantive knowledge, and poise. Strong analytical abilities, intelligence, and intellect. Ability to think creatively about solutions requiring multiple levels of analysis and understanding. Ability to provide solid, well-informed, and well-reasoned legal analysis and advice, appropriate to the circumstances and taking business context into account. Ability to convey complex topics in understandable and accessible way, maintaining high-level focus and enabling clear communication between business and legal teams. Ability to identify connections among disparate concepts and substantive areas to strategically solve problems and address issues. Dedication and commitment to successfully completing the identified objectives.