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Current Saint Francis Employees - Please click HERE to login and apply. Full Time The work location for this role will be on-site in Tulsa, OK.
This position provides legal services as a practicing counsel, which includes interpreting laws, rules and regulations, as well as advising company personnel on legal rights, obligations, and privileges. This position is also accountable for preparing and submitting legal documents, including new government applications, required governmental reports, contracts and internal legal memos, as well as monitoring laws or regulations affecting the company.
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Juris Doctor degree from an ABA accredited law school. Licensure, Registration and/or Certification: Admission to practice in Oklahoma (which can be obtained post-hire). Work
None. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Preferred experience in transactional law. Superior writing skills.
Excellent communication ability. Ability to work accurately in fact-paced environment and maintain a sense of urgency.
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Assists the General Counsel with a wide variety of projects requiring legal expertise, including preparing and reviewing corporate documents and contracts, reviewing and revising hospital policies to achieve legal compliance, reviewing proposed filings with federal and state agencies, and advising and assisting with legal disputes relating to contractual obligations. Assists in protecting SFHS's legal interests and maintaining its operations within the scope established by law.
Identifies and analyzes legal issues, drafts key documents, presents clear recommendations, and assures legal compliance. Provide support to General Counsel pertaining to operations including, but not limited to, changes in laws and regulations, which may impact the health care industry in general and Saint Francis specifically. Assist the General Counsel with corporate compliance with a wide variety of federal and state laws and regulations.
General legal support. Provide general legal advice and support as requested by various departments, as approved by the General Counsel, within SFHS. Timely and accurate reviewing or drafting contracts as requested by SFHS, with particular emphasis on human resources and benefit contracts, real estate and equipment leases, managed care, purchasing software and hardware licensing/support, training contracts and HIPAA related contracts.
Provide legal support and guidance with respect to all clinical research activities within SFHS, ensuring that all clinical research activities within SFHS comply with applicable laws and regulations. Act as the HIPAA privacy officer for SFHS, with responsibility for ensuring the organizations compliance with the HIPAA privacy standards. Develop and implement education and training for the workforce with respect to the HIPAA privacy standards.
Develop and maintain a systematic process to monitor ongoing compliance with the privacy standards. Communicate/collaborate as necessary with the organization's HIPAA security officer. Draft and revise corporate minutes and by laws.
Prepare and coordinate filings with the secretary of state. Ensure that corporate records and data are prepared and maintained in compliance with legal regulatory accreditation standards. Accept and coordinate service of process.
Provide legal support and guidance to the patient accounting department and outside collection agencies and attorneys with respect to efforts to collect outstanding patient balances. Develop and recommend improvements for standard contractual documents, templates and clause libraries. Participate in the definition and development of corporate policies, procedures and programs and provide continuing counsel on legal matters and on legal implications of all matters.
Decision Making: Independent judgment in making decisions from many diversified alternatives that are subject to general review in final stages only. Working Relationships: Works with internal/external customers. Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.
Works frequently with individuals at director level or above. Special Job Dimensions: None. Supplemental Information: This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job.
This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties. Legal Services - Yale Campus Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136 EOE Protected Veterans/Disability
About the role
Job Summary: This position provides legal services as a practicing counsel, which includes interpreting laws, rules and regulations, as well as advising company personnel on legal rights, obligations, and privileges.