Cindy Jacobs is a nurse-attorney with over 30 years of combined legal and healthcare experience, currently working in conjunction with Whole Washington. As an RN and ARNP before attending law school at UCLA, she worked primarily in neonatal intensive care. As an attorney, she has represented and advised healthcare clients regarding a broad spectrum of health care issues, spoken extensively on health law subjects, and has taught health law classes at the law school level for the past eight years.

 

Her specific areas of expertise and focus include telemedicine, healthcare compliance and other healthcare regulatory law (including licensing, reimbursement, and other related regulatory schemes), FDA law, professional liability, risk and quality management, scope of practice, informed consent, and clinically-related contracting. She is a partner at Jacobs Riggs, where her practice and consulting work focus on healthcare issues.

 

Cindy’s nursing roots and passion for patients’ welfare run deep; she is committed to helping secure universal rights to safe and affordable healthcare for all patients.