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Health and Social Services Sector

This sector involves several fields of activity and requires specialized legal expertise. For many years, our specialized legal team has participated actively in understanding and resolving legal problems raised in the health and social services network.

Our legal services include advice or opinions, assistance in the performance of the institution’s duties and the defence of its interests before the courts administrative tribunals (Commission d'accès à l'information, Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, Syndic des ordres professionnels, etc.). The labour relations field is the subject of a specific presentation, in view of its scope.

The lawyers working in health and social services law have developed recognized expertise in the following fields:

Organizational and corporate

• Structural evolution of institutions:
  permits (renewal), organization plan, mergers, integration, assignment, business transfers, administrative reorganizations
• Internal operation:
  Board of Directors and other bodies: formation, elections, designation, composition, qualification, powers and obligations, regulations, minutes, resolutions, management and accountability, various investigations, relations with health professionals (status and privileges or discipline)
• Operation of satellite agencies:
  founding of institutions (constitution, merger, internal organization, letters patent, supplemental letters patent, directors’ meeting)

Service delivery and obligation

• Assistance and support in management of activities:
  oral or written advice, special interventions with third parties
• Analysis or drafting:
  deeds, undertakings, agreements or contracts

Institutional civil liability

• Recommendations and advice
• Defence of the institutions’ interests before the courts and administrative tribunals

Management of material and financial resources

• Movable and immovable property :
  oral or written advice, transactions
• Construction
• Call for tenders and instructions
• Analysis and drafting of contracts
• Pooled procurement
• Collection of room and board

Information management

• Recommendations and various opinions :
  content, conservation, destruction, requests for access, information sharing, document management (users, personnel, administration, third parties)
• Circulation and security of electronic information

Care of users

• Residential care, institutional care, authorization of treatment, inter-institutional transfer

External environment of the institutions

• Third-party relationships:
  intermediate or family-type resources, institutions, agencies, municipal, regional, provincial and federal authorities users, family members, close relations and visitors

Publications and communication tools

With the collaboration of Les Éditions Yvon Blais (a Thomson company), our health legal team publishes Droit de la santé, Lois et règlements annontés, Bulletin Droit de la santé (BDS) and Droit de la santé en bref. Among our other preferred communication tools, should be note the publication of newsletters, the organization of legal workshops, or training sessions.