Steven "Steve" D. Gravely
Partner
Practice Group Leader
Richmond
Business Phone:
804.697.1308
Business Fax:
804.698.5158
steven.gravely@troutmansanders.com
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Steve focuses his practice in the area of health law and disaster preparedness and response issues for critical infrastructure industries. He has represented hospitals and other health care providers for over 20 years in full spectrum of health care legal issues. Steve currently serves as the Health Care Practice Group Leader for Troutman Sanders.
Representative Experience
Health Care
Assist with the development of Regional Health Information Organizations
Advise clients on e-health issues including HIPAA
Successfully represented health care organizations in the acquisition and sale of health care facilities
Represented major hospital providers in several multi million dollar federal Medicare fraud investigations negotiating successful settlement
Represented numerous hospital systems in significant, contested Certificate of Public Need cases involving new facilities, replacement facilities and initiation of major new clinical programs
Successfully merged health care providers into new provider entities
Represented hospitals and physician groups in formation of managed care organizations
Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
Serve on Special Counsel for Emergency Preparedness and Response for the Virginia Office of Attorney General
Advise the Secure Commonwealth Panel, Health & Medical Sub-Panel on legal aspects of preparedness issues
Advise state hospital associations on multiple issues related to emergency preparedness and response
Coordinate, and principal author of, comprehensive rewrite of Virginia laws on quarantine and isolation which were unanimously passed by the Virginia General Assembly, 2004
Advise health care providers and public health officials on issues related to surge capacity and response to emergencies
Advise major electric utility on pandemic influenza preparedness issues
Serve as co-facilitator of CDC Foundation Toronto Workshop, SARS Lessons Learned by the Business Community; Toronto Canada - March 2005
Serve as Technical Advisor on numerous table top exercises
Presentations
American Health Information Community: HIMSS 2008 Conference, Nationwide Community Health Information Network: Data Use and Reciprocal Support, February 2008
American Bar Association/CDC Conference on XDR TB, July 2007
American Nurses Association Quadrennial Policy Conference, Atlanta, GA – June 2007
Altered Standards of Care
CDC Legal Preparedness Summit, Atlanta, GA – June 2007
New Jersey Hospital Association Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Princeton, NJ – June 2007
EUCI Pandemic Influenza Conference for Electric Utilities, Seattle, WA – May 2007
Harvard School of Public Health/School of Business Symposium on Pandemic Influenza, Boston, MA –May 2007
American Hospital Association
Conference of Emergency Preparedness Coordinators, Altered Standards of Care, Savannah, GA – March 2007
Atlanta Bar Association CLE - Pan Flu Planning, Atlanta, GA – November 2006
EEI Pandemic Influenza Conference, Washington, DC – October 2006
Virginia Society for Hospital Risk Management Conference, Fredericksburg, VA – September 2006
American Bar Association Teleconference – Pan Flu Preparedness, June 2006
Virginia Hospital Emergency Management Forum, Charlottesville, VA – June 2005, May 2006, May 2007 Forum
UVA Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, Hospital Bio-Ethics & Pandemic Influenza,
Charlottesville. VA - May 2006
Commonwealth of Virginia - Pandemic Influenza Summit, Breakout Session on First Responders - March 2006
VDH Community Based Emergency Response (CBER) Program, Speaker on Communicable Disease Containment Issues - Multiple programs throughout state during 2006
Louisiana Hospital Association Hospital Law Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA - November 2005
American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Emerging Legal Issues Conference, Disaster Preparedness Legal Issues, Orlando, FL - February 2005
American Public Health Association 132nd Annual Meeting & Exposition, Public Health and the Environment, Washington, DC - November 2004
CDC Public Health & the Law Conference in the 21st Century, Atlanta, GA - June 2004, June 2006
Publications
Co-author, “Improving Cross-sectoral and Cross-jurisdictional Coordination for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness,” Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, December 2007.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S., “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Implications of Altered Standards of Care,” American Health Lawyers Association, Hospitals & Health Systems Rx, December 2006.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S., "Emergency Preparedness and Response: Legal Issues in a Changing World", Virginia Lawyer, June/July 2006.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S., “Emergency Preparedness and Response: Legal Issues in a Changing World,” The Health Lawyer, June 2005.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S.,"Emergency Preparedness and Response: Legal Issues for In-House Counsel,” In-House Counselor, May 2005.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S., “A Patchwork Of Protection: Sources Of Volunteer Immunity For Medical & Public Health Volunteers,” Health Lawyers Weekly, April 8, 2005.
Co-author, Whaley, Erin S., “Are Doctors At Risk When They Do the Right Thing?” Virginia Medical Law Report, March 2005.
Other Distinctions
Named to Virginia Business magazine's Legal Elite in Health law (2003-2008)
Named as a Virginia Super Lawyer in Health Care law (2006, 2007 and 2008)
Work Experience
Practice Group Leader, Health Care
Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2000–present
Partner, McCandlish Kaine, 1987–2000
Partner, Seawell, Dalton, Hughes & Timms, 1984–1987
Law Clerk, Virginia Supreme Court, 1983–1984
Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia, Summer 1982
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Commonwealth of Virginia, Summer 1981
Hospital Operations:
Richmond Memorial Hospital, 1980–1982
Southside Regional Medical Center, 1979–1980
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia, 1979
Riverside Hospital and Healthcare System, Newport News, VA, 1977–1978
Williamsburg Community Hospital, Williamsburg, VA, 1973–1977
Emergency Medical Services:
Williamsburg Fire Department and Rescue Squad, 1973–1977