2008 — The health care industry is Michigan’s largest employer, with nearly 500,000 direct jobs and more than 260,000 indirect and induced jobs that pay $33.1 billion per year in wages, salaries and benefits.
Bodman maintains a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers that serve health care clients in all aspects of their business operations. Our clients range from the largest medical systems to medical practices. Bodman health care attorneys understand the corporate anatomy of a major health system. They should — team members serve on the governing boards of some of Michigan’s largest health care providers, including Henry Ford Health System, the St. John Health System and the University of Michigan.
Bodman attorneys assist health care clients on all fronts, from consolidation of hospitals and systems, to careful expansion of the number of beds in growing markets, to strategic negotiations with government and medical school partners. We have assisted hospitals and health systems with restructuring, forming strategic alliances, and meeting the challenges of a fast-changing regulatory environment. Bodman currently represents three of the largest health care systems in Michigan and the largest not-for-profit health care provider in the United States.
Our experienced team of lawyers is well versed in serving the needs of not only health care providers, but of businesses closely associated with the health care industry, including those in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, and medical device sectors. The health care team approaches issues from a broad business perspective, drawing on expertise from all practice areas within the Firm.
Attorneys within this group have experience with:
We represented the Detroit Medical Center in the partial sale of one of its hospitals to a group of physicians, creating the first physician-owned hospital in Michigan.
We represented the Detroit Medical Center in litigation that prevented the Karmanos Cancer Institute from moving its cancer hospital away from the DMC campus. The damages to the DMC if Karmanos had moved its cancer hospital were estimated to be up to $100 million.
We negotiated a collaboration among the State of Michigan, County of Wayne, City of Detroit, and the Detroit Medical Center that provided an infusion of $50 million in government aid.
We represented the Henry Ford Health System in certificate-of-need litigation (at both the trial and appellate levels) that upheld the licensure of beds for strategic expansion in Oakland County.
We advised Ascension Health in negotiations for a joint venture with a New York Stock Exchange company.
We represented a health care provider through the complex phases of needs assessment, negotiation, acquisition, integration, installation, testing and deployment of mission-critical information systems.
We helped health care providers resolve a range of issues with information systems vendors, including fraud, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, civil RICO and violations of consumer protection statutes.
We have successfully represented health care providers in many employment-related lawsuits.