Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. is seeking a skilled attorney to join its in‑house legal services team and support a growing, mission‑driven healthcare system headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1924, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum, not-for-profit health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. Baptist Health is the largest healthcare system in Kentucky and employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, more than 1,940 employed providers and 2,200 independent providers, and more than 480 locations for care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices, free standing emergency departments, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness center, occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics, and centralized laundry services, telehealth services, research studies, behavioral health services, accountable care organization, and clinically integrated network.
The Corporate Counsel will provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to support Baptist Health’s operations and strategic initiatives. This role works closely with executive leadership, operational teams, and clinical partners, advising on a broad range of healthcare and corporate matters in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a team of in-house attorneys.
Essential Duties:
Provide legal advice and services for Baptist Health and its affiliated companies to assure that the organizational structure, business transactions, and operational activities of Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. and its affiliated companies comply with applicable laws and regulations
Provide legal counsel on healthcare regulatory, corporate, and operational matters affecting hospitals, physician practices, and affiliated entities
Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of agreements, including professional service agreements, leases, physician employment agreements, commercial and vendor contracts, and strategic affiliations
Support system growth initiatives, including expansions, acquisitions, and new service offerings
Interprets, analyzes, and advises on federal, state, and local laws and regulations involving general healthcare, patient care, regulatory, and compliance matters including HIPAA, guardianship, consent, billing, Medicare and Medicaid regulations, 340B, accreditation and licensure, anti-kickback law, tax exemption, and Stark law
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to mitigate and manage enterprise risk while enabling business objectives
Qualifications:
Juris Doctor from an accredited law school with at least five years' experience
Active license to practice law or eligible for licensure in Kentucky and membership in the Kentucky Bar Association
Experience in healthcare law, corporate law, or a related practice area
Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills
Ability to provide clear, practical legal advice in a collaborative environment
Onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangements in Kentucky preferred.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
