Sarah Kitchell is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Boston office. She focuses her practice on transactional and regulatory matters affecting a wide range of clients in the healthcare industry, including non-profit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, wholesale pharmacies, post-acute providers including home health and hospice providers and skilled nursing facilities, and other health care companies.
Sarah’s transactional practice is focused on strategic affiliations, mergers and acquisitions, physician-hospital alignments, venture capital investments, and complex contractual arrangements. Sarah provides regulatory counsel to clients seeking compliance with federal and state healthcare regulations and to clients searching for clarity with regard to various aspects of healthcare reform. She has experience with federal and state filings in the context of change of ownership transactions and has assisted clients with submissions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Sarah has also provided assistance to academic medical centers and other research institutions involving research misconduct, institutional review boards, and other research compliance issues.
