Peter Winterburn presented at the Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA) Annual Convention at the Knoxville Convention Center in Downtown Knoxville on August 30th. He presented on the topic of how nursing home and assisted living facility owners and operators can “Have a Lock Tight Quality Improvement Committee” according to the Tennessee Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2011 (TPSQIA).
Peter B. Winterburn is special counsel in the Memphis office of Lewis Thomason. He concentrates his practice in Long Term Care defense and medical malpractice defense litigation. Mr. Winterburn has represented physicians, skilled nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi throughout his career. He also maintains a general civil litigation practice that includes premises liability, legal malpractice, and appellate practice. Mr. Winterburn has routinely litigated cases in trial courts and through the appellate process involving medical malpractice, Tennessee’s Health Care Liability Act, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Agreements in the health care setting. He has also written Alternative Dispute Resolution Agreements and trained managers and health care providers on arbitration.