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Services for Physicians, Faculty, Executives
Physicians, faculty, and higher education executives are managing personal and professional demands in fields that are changing more rapidly than ever before. The professional challenges listed in each field below are just a few that must be successfully navigated both for the organizations and their leaders.
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Arden Ornt has worked with hundreds of senior-level professionals, supporting them through advocacy, advice, review, research, negotiation and resolution of issues via legal representation, business consulting, career development, and work/life balance.
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How we help:
“Jeanine is a gifted and extremely competent attorney. Her strong legal background combined with her practical approach have been very effective in providing thoughtful and creative solutions for a variety of legal problems. Those I have referred have found her to be a good listener, compassionate, and always attentive and responsive. I will continue with great confidence to recommend Jeanine to family and friends.“—Senior Director, Patient Experience, at major academic medical center.
Legal Services for Individual Professionals
We offer legal support for:
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Employment agreements.
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Independent contractor agreements; non-compete agreements.
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Severance, termination and plans of correction or improvement.
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Licensing, accreditation, privileges, credentialing.
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Tenure and post-tenure disputes; promotions; professional and/or research misconduct.
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Governmental inquiries and investigations.
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Creative resolution of issues relating to performance issues.
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Resolving employment legal issues concerning balancing career and family.
“Jeanine is a gifted and extremely competent attorney. Her strong legal background combined with her practical approach have been very effective in providing thoughtful and creative solutions for a variety of legal problems. Those I have referred have found her to be a good listener, compassionate, and always attentive and responsive. I will continue with great confidence to recommend Jeanine to family and friends.“—Senior Director, Patient Experience, at major academic medical center.
Consulting Services for Individual Professionals
​These have included advice, collaboration, creative problem-solving to:
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Promote, protect and support the professional’s career, profession, license and/or reputation.
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Raise to a higher level the professional’s team-building, leadership, organizational and/or performance skills.
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Provide the individual with a respectful transition to another position or organization, affording the transitioning party a new and better opportunity for success.
We also offer development opportunities for developing your processes and skills in:
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Time management and organizing (little changes can make a big difference)
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Leadership and team-building
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Performance management, including delivering performance appraisals and discipline that encourages greater commitment by your employees
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Your ability to deal with difficult people
“Jeanine Arden Ornt approached the issues I had with confidence, energy, and understanding. Her research, both into my problem and into the work environment helped me respond more directly to issues. Her energy and confidence, fueled by her careful reading of all related documents and her perspicacity in ferreting out truth, saved me hours of anguish and gave me new perspectives. One of the best things about trusting your legal concerns to Jeanine Arden Ornt is the very fact that she actively listens, deeply considers, and then takes action. She expected my total and active engagement. I can’t thank her enough!“—Full-time faculty member.
Health Care Advances and Impact on Physician Careers
Continuous change in healthcare delivery is affecting physician careers, lifestyle choices, compensation, and work settings. The implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the upward trend in physicians’ work-life balance preferences, and the increasing patient base of newly insured and aging baby boomers all have an impact on physician recruiting and retention.
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We help physicians sort through and manage the impact that these issues, challenges, and opportunities have on their employment, career, and work-life balance.
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We also help you resolve inquiries or investigations by:
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State licensing boards.
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Federal departments and agencies, including Health and Human Services (including the OIG and Office of Civil Rights), Justice, and Transportation; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Drug Administration; National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Office of Human Research Protection; Veterans Administration; and others.
See also our section on “The Physician-Parent.”
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Upheaval in Faculty Roles and Responsibilities
The set of tasks expected of faculty is intensifying under increasing pressure to keep up with new directions in teaching and research. For example, new faculty members may need to develop skills in grant-writing or in designing and offering online courses.
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Seasoned faculty members may need to keep up with emerging specialties in their fields as well as to engage in more interdisciplinary work. All faculty will continuously need to learn new skills in the face of an increasingly technological workplace.
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It’s a daunting challenge to simultaneously achieve distinction as a scholar, teacher, and campus citizen.
We help faculty manage the impact of these changes and important faculty employment contract issues such as salary and tenure requirements, and even whether tenure will remain a career option for them in the future.
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Senior Executive Challenges in Health Care and Higher Education
B. E. Smith research (link below) has identified four key trends which will be particularly important to hospital and health system boards and senior executives working to move their organizations toward creating a patient-centric healthcare environment.
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Cost savings verses quality care: How to keep healthcare affordable, while still delivering high quality care.
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The migration of care: Patients are seeking more convenient, affordable and accessible care through non-traditional outlets such as retail clinics and independent ambulatory services.
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Population health: It’s an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population.
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Physician leadership: More hospitals and health systems will turn to physicians as a valuable leadership resource.
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Employee recruitment, retention, engagement.
Senior executives in higher education face issues just as complex as their counterparts in health care:
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Financial health: How to stay financially sustainable when higher ed is being asked to increase learning productivity, raise skill and knowledge levels, and much more.
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Academic performance: The Obama administration’s post-secondary institution rating system—designed to assess accessibility, affordability and outcomes—will have implications for higher ed.
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Student wellness: Preventing discrimination; dealing with domestic, sexual, and dating violence; and coping with and helping students with mental health issues are all activities now within the scope of higher education responsibilities.
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Continuity in leadership: Conflicting pressures from board member and faculty about innovation and the urgent need of a pipeline for the next generation of leaders are two major issues.
In both health care and higher education, we help senior executives manage their careers in these volatile fields through successful negotiation of excellent and fair employment contracts, leadership skill development, and career development consulting.
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“Top 4 Trends Facing Senior Healthcare Executives in 2015 (B.E. Smith)”
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