Health Sector Services
With increasingly complicated day-to-day operations, health care providers face a daunting legal environment. And that's why health sector clients turn to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) — to help them navigate this complex area. A key strategic partner, BLG Health Sector Services ensures your continued success and compliance with legislation particularly as the health care industry shifts in response to competitive marketplace forces and governmental regulation, among other things. Regardless of the issue, Health Sector Services combines in-depth experience with leading-edge insights and strategies to help you meet your goal of providing sustainable, high quality health care.
BLG truly speaks your language. Our team includes over 100 professionals across the country that comprise highly skilled, multi-disciplinary teams able to support you with all your legal needs, from malpractice and advocacy to capital redevelopment and intellectual property protection. With such an experienced and diversified practice, you can look to BLG to act as your trusted and well-connected advisor.
Our passion and drive for the best possible results frequently culminates in the recognition of our professionals at home and abroad. Members of Health Sector Services have been consistently featured in the top legal ranking publications, including The Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
At BLG, we're serious about your success. You strive to attain operational excellence in your health care facility and we're with you every step of the way.
Our Services
Board Governance Advisors and Senior Management Counsel
The most important decisions involving a hospital or health institution are made by its senior leadership and governing body. Our team helps with management decisions, governance structure and processes, directors' duties and liabilities, community engagement and integration of providers and services. By assisting senior management and boards with day-to-day management decisions and in the implementation of governance best practices, we are helping to keep these essential facilities running efficiently, so that they are able to provide the best patient care possible.
Intellectual Property Protection and Commercialization
Proprietary advances are often discovered in the quest to assist patients through treatment innovation or research. It is our goal to help protect and, where possible, commercialize your important breakthroughs. Our team works with researchers and technology transfer/industry liaison offices to identify and protect intellectual property, file patent and trade-mark applications and assist with commercialization contracts. The team responsible for this crucial task includes 10 PhDs with extensive backgrounds in the life sciences sector.
Health Informatics
Technology continues to drive efficiencies in every industry sector, including the health sector. It is our job to help ensure that the legal issues with informational and technological solutions are resolved and do not encumber health care institutions. Our team can assist in the procurement, acquisition and licensing of hardware, software and information technology-related services needed to support your information technology needs. We know how technology must be provided in order to comply with privacy laws.
Health Advocacy
Like any organization, health care institutions are occasionally called upon to defend their actions. Ever-evolving regulations are producing an array of compliance, transactional and litigation issues. It is our mission to work with you, as part of your team, and to ensure that you have representation that is responsive, proactive and effective.
Human Resources and Labour Relations
The lifeblood of any health facility is the dedicated professionals who work within its walls. Our goal is to help ensure that the day-to-day staffing operations of these institutions run with as little disruption as possible. Ultimately, this entails advising clients on a wide range of labour law issues, involving unionized workplaces and employees, and employment law issues, involving non-unionized workplaces and employees.
Capital Redevelopment, Financing and Procurement
When it comes time for your health care institution to be renovated, expanded or rebuilt, we can help you through the maze of processes, paperwork and project delivery. We are one of the most experienced capital redevelopment and construction law groups in Canada. We have acted for hospitals and the government agencies charged with implementing capital projects across Canada. We regularly advise on procurement, construction, corporate and financing issues, and we have experience drafting, negotiating and executing procurement documents, project agreements, contracts and consulting agreements as well as supporting process execution.