Health care is an increasingly complex area of both business and advocacy law. Our health care group dedicates itself to being informed and educated about all of the medical-legal issues that surround the delivery of health care in Canada.

Our client base in the health care sector includes professionals, providers, institutions and agencies. We are called upon to provide advice and representation on matters ranging from privacy issues to telehealth, negotiation of technology procurements and multi-party public/private partnerships, identification, protection and licensing of intellectual property rights, commercialization initiatives, obtaining, transferring or relocating independent health facilities, laboratories and other regulated commercial transactions, government relations and negotiations, financing and the structuring of private health care facilities and/or retirement homes or institutions, together with opinions and advice on Ontario health policy.

Our Health Care law team provides timely advice on:

• Health policy, legislative developments and legal trends in health care delivery
• Representation of health professionals in complaints, discipline, fitness to practice, quality assurance proceedings and in all other licensing matters
• Representation of health professionals in hospital privileges disputes
• Representation of parties and advice respecting consent, capacity and mental health proceedings
• Corporate organization and related issues
• Defense of malpractice actions
• Financial and business planning of health sector ventures
• Governance Infrastructure
• Hospital / medical staff relations including privileges and credentialing
• Informatics and Telehealth
• Issues pertaining to medical staff policies, procedures and bylaws
• Negotiation regarding Alternate Funding Plans (AFPs)
• Professional regulatory law
• Advice on information access and privacy issues, as well as representing health care organizations in privacy
• Quality Assurance Reviews and Accreditation Inspections Licensing for Independent Health facilities, such as sleep laboratories, etc.
• Representation in litigation, both in court and outside of the courtroom
• Representation before the Health Services Appeal and Review Board
• Representation before the Health Professionals Appeal Review Board
• Workplace harassment and discrimination issues

Our Resources

Our lawyers are involved in the health community, as volunteers and members of local and national health care organizations. In addition to our advocacy expertise, the expanded resources of the Health Law Group allows us to offer counsel on governance, infrastructure, financing, informatics and other public and private health care opportunities. Our client base in the health care sector includes professionals, providers, institutions and agencies.

Our People

At Gardiner Roberts LLP, we believe that the best way to serve our clients is to have lawyers from various disciplines work together as a team focused on our clients’ needs. Our Health Law Group regularly collaborates and consults with lawyers in our Business Practices Group, Real Estate Group, Technology and IP Group and Non-Profit & Charitable Organizations Group in order to provide the most comprehensive and sound legal advice possible.