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Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. This week’s update includes legislation that, if passed by the U.S. Senate, could legalize marijuana and generate tax revenue to boot. Early reports suggest that the U.S. Senate plans to propose its own form…Read More

As we highlighted here, on March 26, 2021, Governor Evers signed Assembly Bill 125 into law as Wisconsin Act 23 (“Act 23”) significantly updating the laws related to the licensure, regulation and the practice of physician assistants (“PAs”) in Wisconsin. The change is intended to improve access to quality medical services for Wisconsin patients by reducing barriers…Read More

On March 2, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) released notice and guidance on federal civil rights protections and privacy laws that apply to gender-affirming care (the “Notice”). In the Notice, OCR affirms its intent to investigate and enforce Section 1557 of the Affordable…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. News about the senior housing industry continues to dominate headlines. In fact, there were very few articles on anything but the senior housing industry. From a legislative perspective, state and federal legislators seem to…Read More

A federal district court affirmed this guidance in a careful analysis of the attorney-client privilege and its application to protect separate legal entities within a larger corporate structure. Affirming that member entities are not treated as “one client,” the Court in U.S. ex rel Behnke v. CVS Caremark Corp., et al. denied a whistleblower’s motion…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. News about health care workforce issues continues to make headlines. Last week, the American Hospital Association urged Congress to deal with the health care staffing issues, calling it a “national crisis.” The American Health…Read More

New cyber incident reporting requirements are forthcoming from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Part of the just-signed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 (H.R. 2471) that we wrote about here, the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (“Act”) gives covered entities 72 hours to report to the Agency that a covered cyber…Read More