Mary Richard appointed vice chair of AHLA Behavioral Health Task Force
Mary Holloway Richard, Of Counsel to Phillips Murrah’s Healthcare Practice Group, has been appointed Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Behavioral Health Task Force.
Richard was formerly a co-chair of the Providers and Clinicians Committee of the Behavioral Health Task Force.
She has represented both institutional and non-institutional providers of health services, as well as patients and their families. Her career has included work at hospitals, outpatient clinics, behavioral health facilities and rehabilitation facilities and clinics.
Richard will be participating in a panel discussion entitled “Hot Topics in Behavioral Health” at the AHLA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in June, 2015.
The Behavior Health Task Force was established by the nationwide professional organization to provide education for attorneys about the legal issues that arise in the provision of services to behavioral health patients and to alcohol and drug treatment providers and patients.
