Jenny Gramling Givens

Jenny is an associate with the healthcare section of Gray Reed & McGraw in its Dallas Office. Her background in hospital administration gives her a unique understanding of the challenges facing healthcare providers and how to craft realistic solutions to those challenges.

Jenny advises a wide-range of providers including hospitals, physician entities, ambulatory surgery centers, and home health and hospice entities regarding healthcare operational, regulatory and corporate transactional matters. She has experience with a variety of matters including fraud and abuse, compliance, HIPAA, EMTALA, licensure and certification, reimbursement issues, employment agreements, coverage agreements, and management services contracts.

Before joining Gray Reed, Jenny was in-house with Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and City of Hope National Medical Center in Pasadena, California where she handled a variety of transactional and compliance matters. In addition to her in-house legal experience, prior to attending law school, Jenny was an administrator for a community hospital in Los Angeles, California. As assistant administrator, she worked with the medical staff committees and participated in all executive team committees and was responsible for strategic planning, services quality and day-to-day operations of the hospital's ancillary services, as well as licensing and accreditation activities. During her tenure in hospital administration, Jenny successfully led the facility through two Joint Commission surveys, was instrumental in securing funds through the sale of tax-exempt bonds for large-scale expansion project and, as an owner's representative, she carried a point position in the design and construction of intensive care, medical/surgical and psychiatric units.