Overview
Catharine concentrates her practice on health care law, counseling providers on regulatory obligations, transactions, and the business and compliance questions that come with day-to-day operations. She brings experience advising long-term care providers, guiding skilled nursing, assisted living, and residential care operators through licensing, residents’ rights obligations, and ownership changes, and supporting facility purchases, sales, and HUD-insured loans. She also develops HIPAA-compliant privacy, AI-governance, and technology-use policies and responds to employment claims filed with the EEOC and OCRC.
Prior to joining Frantz Ward, Catharine practiced at a Cleveland post-acute and senior living law firm with an emphasis on health care. There, she counseled long-term care clients in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan on compliance and employment issues and assisted with health care cases at the trial and appellate levels in Ohio.
While in law school, Catharine externed at a regional health system in Cleveland, providing in-house support on regulatory, compliance, and risk-management matters. Supplemented by her M.B.A. with an emphasis in health care management, these experiences give her a unique understanding of the challenges that health care organizations face.
Representative Experience
- Served as borrower’s counsel on HUD Section 232 mortgage-insured financings for long-term care facilities, including transactions exceeding $23 million.
- Prepared closing deliverables for skilled nursing facility acquisitions and financings exceeding $34 million, including tax-exempt health care revenue bond transactions.
- Analyzed Ohio change-of-ownership requirements in connection with facility acquisitions and ownership restructurings.
- Drafted multi-state resident admission packets, arbitration agreements, and residents’ rights policies to comply with federal and state long-term care regulations.
- Supported appellate briefing in Ohio courts on statute-of-limitations and service-of-process issues in health care litigation.
Education & Admissions
Education
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 2025
- Student Bar Association, Senator
- Student Health Law Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Women’s Law Association
- Baldwin Wallace University, M.B.A., Health Care Management, 2020
- John Carroll University, B.A., English Literature, 2019
Bar and Court Admissions
- State of Ohio
Involvement
Professional Affiliations
- Ohio State Bar Association, Member
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member
Community Involvement
- The Weils at Menorah Park, Human Library Charity Fundraiser, Event Organizer (2022)
- Developed and helped coordinate a resident-led storytelling fundraiser benefiting the Geauga County Board of Developmental Disabilities’ Metzenbaum Center.
- Collaborated with assisted living residents to highlight their personal experiences, encourage community engagement, and support individuals with developmental disabilities.
Media Coverage
- Quoted in “The Weils Residents to Offer ‘Human Library’ Stories,” Cleveland Jewish News (July 2022)
Representative Experience
- Served as borrower’s counsel on HUD Section 232 mortgage-insured financings for long-term care facilities, including transactions exceeding $23 million.
- Prepared closing deliverables for skilled nursing facility acquisitions and financings exceeding $34 million, including tax-exempt health care revenue bond transactions.
- Analyzed Ohio change-of-ownership requirements in connection with facility acquisitions and ownership restructurings.
- Drafted multi-state resident admission packets, arbitration agreements, and residents’ rights policies to comply with federal and state long-term care regulations.
- Supported appellate briefing in Ohio courts on statute-of-limitations and service-of-process issues in health care litigation.
Education & Admissions
Education
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 2025
- Student Bar Association, Senator
- Student Health Law Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Women’s Law Association
- Baldwin Wallace University, M.B.A., Health Care Management, 2020
- John Carroll University, B.A., English Literature, 2019
Bar and Court Admissions
- State of Ohio
Involvement
Professional Affiliations
- Ohio State Bar Association, Member
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member
Community Involvement
- The Weils at Menorah Park, Human Library Charity Fundraiser, Event Organizer (2022)
- Developed and helped coordinate a resident-led storytelling fundraiser benefiting the Geauga County Board of Developmental Disabilities’ Metzenbaum Center.
- Collaborated with assisted living residents to highlight their personal experiences, encourage community engagement, and support individuals with developmental disabilities.
Media Coverage
- Quoted in “The Weils Residents to Offer ‘Human Library’ Stories,” Cleveland Jewish News (July 2022)