Overview
Sumaya M. Noush counsels regional and multistate hospitals and health systems, specialty hospitals, academic medical centers and other healthcare organizations on a variety of strategic and operational matters. These matters include: mergers, asset and membership/stock transactions, joint ventures, hospital and physician affiliations, disaffiliations, dissolutions, divestitures, management of ownership transitions, entity structure formation and governance, medical staff bylaws, credentialing, peer review and privileging as well as survey, certification and accreditation matters.
Sumaya closely partners alongside clients as they explore strategies for the future health of their communities, their missions and their business goals. She frequently advises her clients through the challenges of daily operations and recent regulatory developments which drives her understanding of the unique issues facing healthcare organizations today.
Prior to joining McDermott, Sumaya was an associate at a large national firm, a visiting scholar at The Hastings Center, and an instructor and research fellow at Yale University’s Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics. During law school, Sumaya served as a law clerk for a nationally recognized health law practice, a legal intern at a regional community hospital, client advocate and social policy advocate at Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Health Justice Project, and published author and managing and coordinating editor of the Annals of Health Law.
Results
- Advise on healthcare transaction review law requirements and attorney general transaction review requirements in multiple jurisdictions
- Served as lead transactional counsel in the termination of a US Department of Justice-brokered collaboration between two competing regional health systems, negotiated more than three times the value of the initial termination offer, and negotiated a complex transition services agreement
- Served as second chair transactional counsel to a $10 billion integrated healthcare organization in its membership substitution with a newly formed nonprofit organization that was established to create a historic shift in value-based care delivery
- Integration of two robust, geographically diverse nonprofit health systems, one Catholic and the other secular*
- Joint venture between an Illinois pediatric hospital and a California-based long-term care provider to establish a comprehensive pediatric post-acute specialty hospital*
- Represented a nonprofit health system in Pennsylvania in connection with its acquisition of a health plan*
- Affiliation of a Virginia-based nonprofit health system with a Florida-based nonprofit HMO*
- Disaffiliation, dissolution and wind-down of the business affairs of an Illinois health system joint venture*
- Acquisition by a nonprofit Washington health system of a for-profit hospital co-owned by physicians, followed by a complex internal corporate reorganization*
- Divestiture of an Illinois health system’s central-state business units to another Illinois health system*
- $1.5 billion merger of a large nonprofit North-Carolina-based health system with a for-profit health system*
- Merger of two major academic medical centers in Philadelphia to create an 18-hospital health system*
- Merger of a New Jersey health system with an academic medical center to create a 16-hospital system*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Healthcare Law, 2022-2025
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Illinois, 2023-2025
- Person of the Year Award (Group Award to “Travel Ban Lawyers”), Chicago Magazine, 2017
- NCH Health Care Innovation Bright Spark Award, Northwest Community Healthcare, 2016
- Loyola Leadership, Service and Public Interest Recognition Award, 2016
- Outstanding Medical-Legal Partnership Award (Group Award), National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, 2015
- Health Law Fellow, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- CALI Award: Health Care Business & Finance, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- CALI Award: Health Law Legal Writing, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Community
- American Health Lawyers Association, member and author, 2016 to present
- Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, Associate Board, 2023 to 2025
- Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, Board of Directors, 2020 to 2024
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder, 2020
- Muslim Bar Association of Chicago, Board of Directors, 2024 to present
- SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois, Emerging Leaders Board, 2016 to present
Credentials
Education
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD, 2016
Loyola University Chicago Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine, MA, 2016
Loyola University Chicago, BA, BS, 2013
Admissions
Illinois
Languages
Arabic
English
