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Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) operates a network of 145 ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals across the country with approximately 3,700 full-time teammates and more than 2,000 physician partners. The company’s mission is to care for patients, serve physicians, and improve healthcare in America. It achieves this mission by focusing on its core values of clinical quality, integrity, service excellence, teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement.

Clinical quality is a primary focus for the company. SCA recently took the lead in creating industry-wide clinical outcomes reporting procedures, using metrics endorsed by the National Quality Forum. All SCA facilities pursue accreditation through the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) or the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

The 145 surgery centers and surgical hospitals operated by SCA focus on short-term care and primarily provide non-emergency surgical and other procedures in several specialties, including orthopedics, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, pain management, otolaryngology, urology, gynecology, and others. The centers and hospitals provide the facilities, logistics and support staff necessary for physicians to perform these procedures.

Surgical Care Affiliates is committed to being the partner of choice for physicians, hospitals and health systems in delivering high-quality surgical services.

Vision:  To be the partner of choice for surgical care.

Mission:  To care for our patients, serve our physicians and improve healthcare in America.

Strategy:  Growth Leader ● Physicians’ 1st Choice ● Most Efficient Operator ● Proven High Quality Patient Care & Clinical Outcomes ● Culture & Business Process to Become the Partner of Choice (SCA Way)

SCA Values

Clinical Quality:   We are committed to outstanding patient care and clinical outcomes.

Integrity:  We do what is right, no matter how difficult, without exception. We say what we mean, and we do what we say.

Service Excellence:  We seek to exceed the expectations of patients, physicians and each other in everything we do.

Teamwork:  We work together, helping and supporting one another to make our Centers, Departments and all of SCA successful.

Accountability:  We take complete, personal responsibility for our actions and commitments.

Continuous Improvement:  We seek to relentlessly improve our performance in every area – clinical, operational, and financial – constantly pushing ourselves to new heights.

Corporate Attorney

Job Summary:

The individual who fills this position will represent SCA and its affiliates in a variety of legal matters. This attorney will be the primary legal contact for his/her assigned Group(s), providing accurate and timely legal advice and support to the Group(s) in an efficient manner, through both direct work and effective management of outside counsel when use of outside counsel is warranted. This is a generalist role, with a focus on corporate law areas such as joint venture agreement provisions and amendments and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions within the Group(s)' markets. This attorney will also be responsible for one or more areas of enterprise-level legal work for SCA, including SCA's equity incentive plan(s) and debt documents, minimizing SCA's use of outside counsel in such areas.   

 

Responsibilities:

  • Serving as the primary legal contact and resource for the regional leaders and facilities which are part of one or more Groups of SCA facilities.

  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, including partnership agreements, LLC operating agreements, member agreements, other joint venture related agreements and vendor agreements. 

  • Advising on and handling partnership, LLC, joint venture and corporate transactions, including repurchases of ownership interests from physicians and amendments to limited partnership agreements and LLC operating agreements.  

  • Coordinating and managing outside counsel on various matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, partnership re-structures and other corporate transactions.

  • Advice/coordination of legal matters relating to SCA’s equity incentive plan(s) and debt documents.

  • Assisting the General Counsel with other projects as needed.

 

Total education, vocational training and experience:

  • J.D. Required (accredited law school preferred).

  • Licensure to practice law in at least one state.

  • At least three years experience practicing law, with specific experience in drafting and negotiating contracts, corporate transactions and experience working with partnerships and other joint ventures. Experience with the health care industry is preferred.

 

 

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Position Information
  • Company:
    Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC
  • Location:
    Birmingham, AL 35244
  • Job Status/Type:
    Full Time
    Employee
  • Job Category:
    Legal
  • Industry:
    Legal Services
  • Career Level:
    Experienced (Non-Manager)
  • Education Level:
    Doctorate
Contact Information
  • Company:
    Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC
  • Reference Code:
    51



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