Stormont Vail Health names new senior vice president and chief legal officer

Stormont Vail Health has named Jay Howard as the new senior vice president, chief legal officer for the regional integrated health care system that includes acute care hospitals in Topeka and Junction City, and multiple primary and specialty care centers and clinics across eastern Kansas. He was to begin March 1. Howard has more than 30 years of legal experience, with all of that time devoted to health care law representing hospitals and health systems. He has been with Polsinelli PC since 1998, serving as an equity shareholder in the firm’s health law department since 2000. Prior to that, Howard worked as an associate for Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP. He is admitted to practice law in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Howard received his LL.M. in health care from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas.