Thursday / March 16, 2017 / 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
When Healthcare Systems Collide: Recent Hospital Mergers in Chicagoland
AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250, Chicago IL
Health Industry Advisor Karen Gibbs will address current hospital mergers in the Chicagoland area. Karen offers first-hand understanding of healthcare merger activity and outcomes, with recent insights from observing an FTC hearing last year regarding a particular health system merger. She will address the growth of mergers, recent deals, and unique insights into issues raised specific to some mergers over others.
Her remarks will be followed by questions and discussions from Chicago architects and industry members with a special interest in the possible effect of such activity.
Speaker: Karen Gibbs joined law firm McDermott, Will and Emery in 2014 after serving as Vice President and Senior Counsel at CVS Health (formerly CVS Caremark), a Fortune 20 integrated pharmacy company. Karen advises a wide variety of health care companies, investors and lenders on operational, regulatory and enforcement issues related to all aspects of the pharmacy distribution chain. Her practice also covers synergistic areas such as substance abuse/behavioral health, physician and veterinarian office dispensing, evolving requirements related to opioid prescribing and dispensing, and a wide variety of prescription reimbursement issues.
