Ensuring compliance and permitting requirements for health care entities 

Rachel Dykema navigates a wide variety of regulatory and compliance matters for health care entities, including hospitals, health systems rural health clinics and critical access hospitals. She advises on nationwide licensing and permitting requirements for specialty, compounding, mail order, pharmacy wholesalers and third-party logistics providers (3PL.)

Rachel is passionate about reduction of harm in the criminal system. She works extensively with the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section establishing comprehensive standards on diversion and alternatives to incarceration, assisting with the drafting and structure to help mitigate and reduce over-incarceration and collateral consequences.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Luther College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2015)
  • Political Science, Business Management

• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2019)
  • Bercovici Prize for Excellence in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy; Dean's Academic Achievement Award; Best Performance in Civil Procedure I
  • Wisconsin Law Review, senior articles editor

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• New Guidance and New Deadlines for CMS Vaccine Mandate
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• UPDATE: CMS Vaccine Mandate Now Temporarily Halted Nationwide