As a regulated health professional in Canada, you have special considerations and risks compared to other traditional business models. And having the proper private practice startup paperwork in place is essential for protecting your practice and minimizing your legal risk. But one of the biggest challenges is knowing where to find affordable yet legally sound paperwork for your private practice.
In this blog, I’ll share with you where can find lawyer-created Canadian private practice startup paperwork templates that won’t break the bank!
Whether you’re a social worker, psychologist, psychotherapist, nurse practitioner or even a physician starting a private practice, knowing where to turn to find everything you need for your practice startup can be challenging.
Sure, you could download the ‘free’ private practice paperwork you’ve found on Google; buy the $29 paperwork pack you found online; or use the paperwork your colleague graciously gave you. You could even hire out everything you need created for your private practice. But each of these options have their own set of limitations, potential legal implications or financial considerations that can put you and your private practice risk.
Risks to Consider When Choosing Private Practice Paperwork
Some the risks to consider before choosing which route to go when choosing your private practice startup paperwork are:
1. When you’re using paperwork, that you haven’t paid for, there are real legal and ethical considerations such as copyright infringement. Whether you’ve found a free paperwork package online or a colleague graciously lend their paperwork, you don’t necessarily have a license to use that paperwork. And using that paperwork could potentially create future copyright infringement claims against you from the original paperwork creator.
2. Maybe you did purchase the paperwork and have a licence for use, but it’s not created by a Canadian legal professional. It’s important to have paperwork that’s designed by a Canadian legal professional who has knowledge about the legal, privacy and regulatory requirements of regulated health professionals in Canada. Unfortunately, buying just any paperwork template online could unintentionally leave you to omit key clauses to protect your private from future disputes. And unfortunately, much of the paperwork for purchase online are from United States-based professionals. And even when a US-based paperwork template pack claims to be “vetted” or “created” by a legal professional, it may not necessarily be compliant for Canadian laws, if it wasn’t a Canadian legal professional.
3. And one of the more legally sound options is to hire a Canadian legal professional to write your private practice paperwork for you. However, the downsides for this option is that it has a significant upfront cost. When you hire a legal professional to create your paperwork for your practice, you’re likely going to spend thousands of dollars before you’ve even opened your private practice doors. The upfront cost is the number one reason why many new private practitioners avoid hiring a lawyer to create their private practice paperwork. I am a strong proponent for having legally-sound paperwork and contracts, so when I first started my private practice I had a lawyer create my private practice paperwork. However, the cost is real! Starting out I paid over $1200 for just the Consent to Treatment form! I was confident that my private practice was legally protected but it definitely came with a price.
Only if I knew about this resource then!
Which is why I want to share it with you.
Paperwork for Canadian Private Practitioners
You no longer have to put your private practice at risk legally or financially to get legal and privacy compliant private practice paperwork.
Corinne Boudreau, a Nova Scotia Lawyer and owner of Online Legal Essentials, along with Jean Eaton, Alberta Practice Privacy Coach and owner of Information Managers have partnered to create the Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack for Canadian Private Practice Owners.
The Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack includes everything you need to start your private practice so that you can be confident that your practice is protected from the moment you open your doors. It also includes a lot additional goodies to continue to protect your practice as your private practice grows.
Here’s what the Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack includes:
1. Video Lessons about how to choose your Legal Business Structure so that you choose the right business structure that fits your private practice dream and vision.
2. Commercial leasing and subletting agreement templates to protect your practice whether you’re the renter or the landlord.
3. Private Practice Paperwork templates including Patient Registration, Consent to Treatment form, Consent to Virtual Care, and Request to Access Personal Health Information forms that can help you stay PIPEDA compliant.
4. a 200+ page Private Practice Policies and Procedure Manual that covers everything from Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Health Information to Employee Privacy Checklist to Procedures to How to Deal with a Privacy Breach or PIPEDA violation so that you can be confident that your practice is compliant with Canadian privacy laws and regulatory body requirements.
5. Website Legal Templates including Copyright Notices, Website Privacy Policies, Website Legal Disclaimers, and Website Terms of Use policies so that your website is legally protected and in compliance with Canadian privacy laws.
6. Hiring Documents for when you start hiring additional employees or contractors inside of your private practice.
7. And when you’re ready to scale your practice, you might consider creating a digital course. So, this package also includes Online Course Legal Templates so that your digital course is protected.
8. Social Media Policies and Email Marketing policies.
9. And finally, if your Legal Business Structure is a corporation (like mine) this package also includes your Annual Meeting Minutes and Dividend Resolutions templates that you’re required to complete annually.
I anticipate that if you outsource all of the content that is included in the Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack it would easily cost you over $10K (and likely much more). But when you buy the templates through Corinne and Jean, you’re only paying $997 Canadian dollar (plus tax).
And as a special bonus for reading this blog post, when you use the coupon code EVASPARE10 at purchase you receive an additional 10% off the regular price.
What are you waiting for?
Leave the legal and privacy compliance stuff to the pros and start protecting your practice today when you purchase the Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack.
>>Click Here to Check out Regulated Healthcare Practitioner Legal Template Pack<<
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