John J. Durso

John Durso is a partner and senior member of the Health Care Practice Group. John has dedicated his 29-year legal career to serving health care providers, religious organizations, churches and other not-for-profit organizations in virtually every area of legal practice including: mergers; acquisitions; affiliations; joint ventures; corporate restructuring; tax; tax exemption; health care finance; public finance; labor and employment; complex litigation; administrative and regulatory; reimbursement; fraud and abuse; HIPAA; survey and certification; alternative insurance and risk mechanisms (including captive insurance companies); and risk management. His clients include hospitals and health systems; integrated delivery networks; post acute long-term care facilities; CCRCs; assisted living facilities; senior housing community based services and other providers of every type and size serving seniors; post acute care alliances; national and state trade associations; physician and physician groups; religious institutes; churches; educational institutions; social services agencies; other not-for-profit institutions; investment bankers, insurance companies, pension funds and other sources of capital to providers. John also serves as a volunteer director of many not-for-profit health care providers and educational institutions’ Board of Directors.

John is a frequent lecturer on legal issues and he also writes a legal update column for McKnights Long Term Care News and a legal column for Life Services Network of Illinois. For the past seven years, he has appeared in and produced the ABA/ACHE’s annual television show entitled, “Health Law Progress and Legislative Update.” He has also appeared on a number of other television shows and has testified before congressional committees on legal issues related to health care.

His clients include:

• Hospitals and health systems;
• Integrated delivery networks;
• Post acute long-term care facilities;
• CCRCs;
• Assisted living facilities;
• Senior housing community based services and other providers of every type and size serving seniors;
• Post acute care alliances;
• National and state trade associations;
• Physician and physician groups;
• Religious institutes; churches;
• Educational institutions;
• Social services agencies;
• Other not-for-profit institutions;
• Investment bankers;
• Insurance companies; and
• Pension funds and other sources of capital to providers.

He has represented the following national and state associations:

• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging;
• Assisted Living Federation of America;
• American Association of Senior Housing; and
• Life Services Network of Illinois

He has represented clients in over 500 transactions involving:

• Mergers, acquisitions, affiliations or joint ventures of every type;
• Twenty horizontal alliances of long term care providers including but not limited to the following: Health Resources Alliance (Chicago); Momentum Health Solutions (Cincinnati); and Covenant (Phoenix); and
• Led in the formation of Continuing Care Insurance Company, a Cayman offshore captive insurance company insuring approximately 70,000 nursing homes and senior housing units owned by the 29 post acute care provider shareholders.
• He has represented his clients in the U.S. and Illinois Supreme Courts.