Paralegal

Gundersen Health System•La Crosse, WI

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Emplify Health is seeking a talented and experienced paralegal to join our legal team. This in-house paralegal position offers a dynamic and rewarding role where you can make a meaningful impact within a leading healthcare organization. We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future. Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you'll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself! Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE + MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are. Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees.

Requirements

Associate degree in Paralegal or Bachelor of Science with major in paralegal studies
3-4 years minimum of related work experience

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and experience working on contractual, corporate, employment, health, medical malpractice, litigation, and other like matters for health care organizations in either Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin
Personal injury and real estate experience

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with attorneys in the legal department.
Provide comprehensive legal advice and assistance on a wide range of issues.
Support compliance, contractual, corporate, employment, and labor matters.
Address medical malpractice, risk management, and patient care legal issues.
Handle consent, termination of care, and other critical legal aspects related to healthcare.
Conduct research and provide thorough analysis to support patient-related legal questions and concerns.