Description:
Description:Associate General Counsel
Summary:
Advises on a wide range of legal matters for UCHealth, including its member hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics.
Responsibilities:
- Provides legal support for all UCHealth entities, including providing executive management with effective advice and counsel on problem solving and coordination of legal and business considerations, spanning a broad segment of health law
- Participates in drafting, negotiating, reviewing, and/or revising the organization's contracts
- Provides legal advice and guidance related to patient care and hospital operations
- Identifies, researches, analyzes and interprets legal and regulatory requirements and determines implications for UCHealth and proper implementation of any requirements
- Cultivates and maintains solid collaborative relationships with UCHealth clients and colleagues
- Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.
Requirements:
- Credentials: License to Practice Law in Colorado
- Minimum Required Education: Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
- Required Licensure/Certification: State licensure as an Attorney.
- Minimum Experience: 5 years of experience.
Preferred:
- Experience providing legal advice and support to pharmacy operations, including experience related to 340B
- Experience providing legal advice and support for clinical research
- Experience providing legal advice related to patient care and hospital operations
At UCHealth, We Improve Lives
Summary:
Analyzes, manages, and advises on legal matters of the organization. Investigates, researches, and evaluates legal issues to determine the organization's rights and responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with internal sources and external legal representation to direct/manage the organization's litigation matters.
- Provides legal advice to executive management, the board of directors, and other internal sources on issues presented, including issues of employment law, corporate law, and health law.
- Participates in drafting, negotiating, reviewing, and/or revising the organization's contracts, policies, plans, and communications.
- Manages and mentors staff attorneys.
- We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.
- UCHealth invests in its Workforce.
- UCHealth offers an Annual Incentive Bonus to recognize employee's contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, and financial goals.
