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As the calendar turned from 2019 to 2020, Nancy Ardell’s to-do list was growing quickly. The new executive vice president and chief legal officer at Northwest Community Healthcare, Ardell was guiding the system through a merger that would assure its role as a community care provider, near Chicago, would continue and even flourish. Piecing together […]

Neil Boyden Tanner is a man of many time zones as the general counsel for international markets at global health service company Cigna. Although his presence is rare in the company’s Philadelphia office, his efforts are still noticed. “A colleague used to say ‘the sun never sets on Neil Tanner,’” Tanner jokes. He says he […]

The waiting may be the hardest part for anyone visiting a hospital emergency room, and there will be plenty of it. In the U.S., ER wait times range from an average of 11 minutes in Utah to 49 minutes in Washington, D.C. The time until a patient is sent home averages 91 minutes in North […]

As a female attorney who is also savvy and passionate about fashion, Nicoline Huizinga gets the “Legally Blonde” thing all the time. “It is very difficult,” she says. “You are being judged—the way I speak, the way I look, my accent, the way I smile, the way I dress.” But the avowed fashionista takes such […]

At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, a paralegal in Enlivant’s legal department opens the contract email box to find a newly submitted contract. After perusing it, the team member emails the sender to let him know which attorney will review and negotiate the contract. Later that day, Enlivant’s general counsel, Nancy Ardell, hops on the legal […]