Associate General Counsel

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

The Associate General Counsel provides a wide range of legal services for Yale New Haven Health System and its affiliates (YNHH). The Associate General Counsel must be able to take initiative, work independently with autonomy, and as a collaborative team member in the Legal & Risk Services Department.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• Provides day to day legal advice and assists senior attorneys on issues related to the operation and management of healthcare providers within YNHH, including, but not limited to:
  • Medical staff
  • Professional services and employment agreements with physicians
  • Medicare reimbursement issues
  • Management services and other compliance arrangements
  • Fraud and abuse
  • Stark Law
  • HIPPA/HITECH
  • Contracts and leases
  • Corporate governance
  • Research and grant contracts and issues
  • Tax exemption matters
  • Licensing and regulatory issues
  • Patient care related issues
  • Responses to governmental investigations
  • Antitrust issues
  • Joint ventures (with physicians and others)
  • Asset purchases and other significant transactions
• Retains outside counsel as needed, with input of senior attorney.
• Identifies critical legal risk exposure matters.
• Assists with supervision of Department paralegals.
• Performs other duties as requested by Deputy General Counsel and Sr. Vice President /General Counsel.

EDUCATION

• JD and Bar admission to the Connecticut Bar Association.

EXPERIENCE

• At least ten years of experience in corporate health care practice with some portion of that time in a healthcare setting is preferred..

LICENSURE

• Current admission to the Connecticut Bar (as Authorized House Counsel or otherwise) or ability to waive in or achieve bar membership in a timely fashion.

SPECIAL SKILLS

• Demonstrated extraordinary ability to perform all aspects of their functions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including timely and effective advice to leadership, executives and other relevant stakeholders
• Ability to independently conduct legal research and provide legal advice
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Autonomously manages a high volume and complex workload within subject matter areas of expertise
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, organizational, and customer services skills
• Ability to handle stressful situations with a calm demeanor and be flexible
• Capable of exercising good judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated ability to issue spot and escalate issues as identified
• Interacts with other Legal & Risk Services personnel to ensure that legal services are provided to YNHH in a timely, practical and cost effective manner consistent with the mission and values of the organization
• Demonstrates a spirit of teamwork, offering positive and constructive ideas, encouragement and support to other members of the Legal & Risk Services Department
• Able to effectively supervise the development and oversee work product of the Department's more junior professional staff
• Proactively seeks professional growth opportunities.