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Position Summary: The Senior Litigation and Regulatory Counsel within MultiCare Legal Services assists MultiCare business leaders and provides legal analysis and support across the organization on complex litigation, claims, operational and regulatory matters, including litigation matters, internal and external investigations, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance in new and emerging business lines and service offerings, and oversees legal support for mission-critical functions related to Quality & Safety. The incumbent will have primary responsibility for supporting and overseeing a range of litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters.
Working closely with business partners to set and employ litigation strategy to drive cases to an efficient resolution through settlement or trial.
Investigating facts and identifying and preparing fact and expert witnesses.
Preparing submissions to courts, arbitration panels and regulators.
Providing practical and thoughtful advice on business initiatives.
Selecting and actively partnering with outside counsel in all aspects of the litigation to represent MultiCare's interests. Additionally, the incumbent serves as a subject matter expert, educational resource, problem solver and strategic advisor to MultiCare business leaders and colleagues on a broad range of medical-legal issues; assists business leaders and outside consulting resources in coordinating the legal aspects of healthcare system operations, and engagement and oversight of outside counsel and consulting resources as needed; provides research, analysis and analytical support for business planning, strategy deployment and ongoing healthcare delivery activities.
Minimum Requirements: - Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in a health system corporate legal department or law firm with significant involvement in combination of regulatory, compliance, risk management, insurance, quality and safety, employment and contractual issues/matters and additional experience with health care transactions, joint ventures, affiliations, mergers and acquisitions, and governance matters
Education/Licenses/Certifications: - Juris Doctorate (JD) from accredited law school- Licensed to practice law in the state of Washington
Position Type: Full-Time Regular Full Time Employee: YesPrimary Shift: Day Work Schedule: Per Position Requirements
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.
Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.
Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.
MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.
