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An Ode to Healthcare Compliance By Lindsey Hennings, MAM, CHC (Lindsey completed the online Health Care Compliance Certificate program in 2015.)   Healthcare Compliance. What does that mean? Rules, regulations, best practices… and all in between! We strive to remain compliant with laws To provide the best service and care, without pause. Why do we …

An Ode to Healthcare Compliance, by Lindsey Hennings, MAM, CHC

The first district court case handled by Mitchell Hamline’s Medical-Legal Partnership with United Family Medicine was a success. The client was granted custody of his young son and successfully petitioned for third-party custody of the boy’s adolescent sister. The family unit had been through intense social upheaval because of the mother’s substance abuse problems. Convincing …

Medical-Legal Partnership Wins First Case

Governor Mark Dayton has appointed Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner, and former Health Law Institute Director, Lucinda Jesson to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Read the full article (Star Tribune, December 4, 2015).

Jesson Appointed to Minnesota Court of Appeals

Hamline Health Law alumna Ashton (Boon) Schatz, ’11, has been featured as one of Minnesota’s Women Influencers in Business Views published by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Schatz identifies Minnesota human services commissioner, and former Health Law Institute director, Lucinda Jesson, as her mentor. Read her full interview on page 14.

Schatz ’11 Recognized by Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

Star Tribune publishes letter from Hamline School of Law alum Rand Park (JD ’93) about the benefit of the new Mitchell | Hamline School of Law. “Both schools have produced scores of excellent lawyers and judges,” Park wrote in the letter published in the Star Tribune on March 8, 2015. “In a world where streamlined graduate degrees in …

Rand Park ’93 writes in Star Tribune about benefits of Mitchell and Hamline Law combination

Congratulations to Paul Buchel ’16 and Braden Carkhuff ’15 on their respective 1st and 2nd place awards in the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Health Law Section Student Writing Competition. Paul Buchel submitted a paper titled “Patients, Precedent, and Politics: The Latest Challenge to The Affordable Care Act, the Value of Health Insurance Exchanges, and the …

Law Students Awarded