Kimber L. Latsha
Mr. Latsha is an attorney who has extensive experience in representing post-acute, assisted living, and continuing care providers. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and is a past Vice Chair of AHLA’s Long Tern Care–Senior Housing, In-Home Care, and Rehabilitation (LTC-SIR) Practice Group. He currently serves on the AHLA Planning Committee for its annual LTC & The Law Conference. He has served as a course planner for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for seminars on Long Term Care Law. He is a long standing member of the LeadingAge Legal Committee and recently served as its Chair. He has lectured and written on numerous topics affecting post-acute, assisted living and continuing-care providers. Mr. Latsha currently serves as LeadingAge PA’s General Counsel. He is a distinguished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Latsha served as a prosecutor and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney while on active duty with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, United States Army (1981-1984). He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal at the conclusion of his active service. Following his three-year tour of active duty, Mr. Latsha served for five years in the United States Army Reserve. He has been awarded the AV® preeminent rating through the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating process attesting to the highest level of legal ability and ethics, and He also was selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in Central Pennsylvania.
Areas of Practice
- Health Care Law
- Transactions, including non-profit affiliations and corporate restructuring
- Regulatory compliance and administrative appeals
- Real estate and Sales & Use Tax Exemption appeals
- Federal Tax Exemption for charitable LTC providers
Litigation Percentage
- 25% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Education
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- J.D.
- Virginia Military Institute
- B.A.
- Honors: With Distinction
Representative Clients
- LeadingAge PA
- HCR ManorCare
- Lutheran Social Services of South Central PA
- Sunrise Senior Living, Inc.
- Phoebe-Devitt Homes
- Messiah Lifeways
- Albright Care Services
- Brookdale Senior Living, Inc.
- Presby’s Inspired Life
- Extendicare Health Services, Inc.
Classes/Seminars
- Legal Issues Roundtable, PEAK/LeadingAge, 2012 - Present
- Appeals from Adverse Licensing Actions and/or Fines, PHCA/CALM, 2012 - Present
- Financial Issues for Senior Services Providers, LeadingAge PA
- Never Events” in Long Term Care – Implications for MA Reimbursement, LeadingAge/IAHSA Global Aging Conference
- The Legal Implications of Resident Choice, LeadingAge & PHCA/CALM
- Home and Community Based Services: an Expansion of the Continuum, PACAH Spring Conference
- PA’s New Assisted Living Final Regulations, PA Bar Institute
Honors and Awards
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent, 2008 - 2012
- Central PA Best Lawyers, 2009 - 2012
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), Former Vice Chair of LTC-SIR Practice Group, 1999 - 2005
- LeadingAge, Member and Former Chair of the Legal Committee
- AHLA – Title: Member of LTC and The Law Planning Committee
- PBA Health Law Committee
- AHCA
- PACAH
- LifeSpan Network
- LeadingAge PA
- OHCA
- LeadingAge NJ
- ALFA

