Cathleen H. Summers, RN JD Licensed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Telephone: 978-263-0006 x11 Email: cathleen@summersatlaw.com Fax: 978-263-0042
As a nurse attorney with over 20 years of legal experience and as Managing Partner of Summers, Summers & Associates, P.C., Attorney Cathleen Summers provide a vast array of legal services to seniors and their families: estate planning (including wills, trusts, advance directives and durable powers of attorney), medicaid planning, reviewing documents associated with long term care placement and assisted living facilities. Additionally, our firm provides life care management services assisting clients and their families in dealing with determining the appropriate level of care for a loved one and helping to identify the right care providers or facility. Locating the appropriate type of care, coordinating private and public resources to finance the cost of care, and working to ensure that our client's right to quality care are honored. We specialize in assisting families who may live out of state or be unable to provide frequent oversight of a loved one's care.
Attorney Summers received her law school education at Boston College as a member of the class of 1990 and was admitted to practice in Massachusetts that same year. As a nurse, she received both an Associates Degree from Lasell College and a Bachelors Degree from Framingham State College. Prior to entering private practice, she was a Medicare Attorney with the Massachusetts Office of Attorney General and Chief Compliance Officer for Fallon Community Health Plan.
Additionally, she provides General Counsel and Corporate Compliance services to several health care entities including Critical Care Systems, Inc. and MetLife/New England Life Insurance Company focusing in the areas of litigation management, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and corporate compliance. She has presented numerous seminars dealing with health care business law, estate planning and elder law . She is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association, the New England Chapter of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys and a member of the Acton-Boxboro Rotary International. She is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the New Hampshire Bar Association, the National Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform and Sigma Theta Tau, an international honor society for nurses.
Attorney Cathleen Summers
Summers, Summers & Associates, P.C. 179 Great Road, Suite 109, Acton, MA 01720
Phone: (978) 263-0006
Fax: (978) 263-0042
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