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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Healthcare Litigation Sands Anderson Marks & Miller's expertise in the health care industry includes over forty years of defending medical negligence claims. We represent public and private hospitals and all types of assisted care facilities as well as doctors, dentists, nurses and clinicians of all specialties and practice groups of all sizes. We are also appointed to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia, its institutions and employees in medical negligence cases. We provide counseling to group practices on a variety of risk management issues and routinely represent health care professionals before various regulatory agencies. Healthcare Risk Management Sands Anderson Marks & Miller recognizes that healthcare is both a profession and a business, and that the legal needs of our clients are not limited to litigation. With rising insurance costs, heightened regulation and accountability, and the underlying threat of damaging court awards, our clients increasingly look to us for experience and expertise in long term risk management, crisis management, patient care, and liability exposure. With our in-depth knowledge of medicine and the healthcare industry, we provide advice and consulting on risk management and business issues to individual healthcare providers and hospitals throughout Virginia and in North Carolina.
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Services Available
Our attorneys are available to respond to day to day issues and problems as they arise, and regularly advise clients on a wide range of risk management issues: - Corporate structure and management
- Healthcare policies and procedures
- Programs for patient safety
- Personnel policies and procedures
- Impaired, incompetent, and disruptive healthcare providers
- Health information systems
- Litigation prevention
- Regulatory Compliance
- Medical records/confidentiality
- The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
- Personnel and Medical Staff issues
- Advanced Medical Directives and Surrogate Decision-making
- Informed consent
- Insurance policies and programs
Our attorneys participate in a number of risk management organizations, including the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the American Society of Hospital Risk Managers. Our attorneys also regularly lecture to professional organizations, medical institutions and health care providers on the subject of legal medicine and risk management, and have participated in lectures at the Medical College of Virginia, the University of Virginia Medical School, The Stoneburner Lectures at MCV, The Macklin Lectures, Bon Secours Health System, Law Institute on Hospitals and Medicines, and the National League for Nursing, Inc. We welcome the opportunity to work with you in creating solutions best suited to your needs at fair and reasonable costs. At Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, our knowledge and understanding of the law, our business experience, our demonstrated skill, and most importantly, our commitment to excellence will protect your interests, address your concerns and further your business goals.
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Clients:
the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Bon Secours Health System, Franklin Memorial Hospital, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Smyth County Hospital, Giles Memorial Hospital, Lewis-Gale Medical Center, the Medical College of Virginia
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