Bio

Ken Burgess is a health care attorney with over 30 years of experience advising clients on a wide range of regulatory, litigation, compliance and operations issues. Ken's practice focuses heavily, but not exclusively, on issues affecting long term care and acute care providers. Ken advises providers on legal issues arising in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, hospice, home health and other spheres of health care. He also represents ancillary providers (pharmacy, DME, therapy, etc.). He advises on Certificate of Need, Medicare/Medicaid enrollment and licensure issues, appeals of quality of care issues, and transactional matters. Ken is a frequent national lecturer and author of industry manuals, national trade journal magazine articles and similar training tools and is primary author and editor of Poyner Spruill’s international award winning newsletter, Shorts on Long Term Care. Prior to joining Poyner Spruill, Ken was the Senior Director of Legal Services and Facility Operations of the American Health Care Association from 1993 to 1997. Ken also served as the North Carolina Health Care Facilities Associations’ General Counsel from 1991 to 1993.