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Who We Are

Howe Legal Nurse Consulting (Howe LNC) fiercely advocates for justice within the healthcare landscape, empowering patients, attorneys, and institutions alike to navigate complex medical-legal challenges and drive meaningful change that improves lives and strengthens the foundation of our healthcare system.

Kristen Howe, Founder

Kristen Howe, RN, BSN, LNC, MLS, founded Howe Legal Nurse Consulting with a deep-rooted belief in helping patients achieve justice.

After years of serving patients across healthcare settings, Kristen saw the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those struggling to navigate the complex intersection of medicine and law.

She recognized that the very system meant to heal often created unintended barriers, preventing patients from accessing the care and support they needed.

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Our Team

The Howe LNC team draws on their diverse nursing backgrounds, which span acute care, home health, hospice, and healthcare leadership roles. Several team members have experience in quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI), including collecting and analyzing data, preparing formal reports, and ensuring compliance with regulations. This expertise allows the team to meticulously review medical records, identify key issues, and provide attorneys with the insights needed to build strong cases.

With team members who have served as clinical managers, case managers, and healthcare educators, Howe LNC has a deep understanding of the challenges patients face when navigating the healthcare system. This knowledge fuels their commitment to holding medical professionals and institutions accountable when negligence or malpractice occurs. By combining their passion for patient advocacy with their extensive medical-legal consulting experience, Kristen and her team provide invaluable support to law firms, enabling them to effectively represent their clients and secure the justice and compensation they deserve.

Our Values

Equal Access

We create meaningful impact as trusted experts in the field partnering with both attorneys and healthcare regulatory entities to ensure fair and equal access to care for everyone. By collaborating with legal experts often representing clients in historically marginalized communities, to help seek changes connected to a greater purpose.

Protecting Healthcare Workers

Our mission is to leverage our expert analysis, advice, and deep understanding of the Nurse Practice Act to defend the rights of healthcare workers unjustly accused. We stand as unwavering allies, dedicated to achieving justice for those who tirelessly serve others.

Reforming Healthcare Systems

We are committed to bridging the gap by blending our clinical expertise with an understanding of the law. Our work has the potential to uncover critical insights that catalyze audits, regulation reviews, legal actions, and policy reforms – all in the name of pursuing justice and driving systemic change.

Ensuring Accountability

Through meticulous medical record reviews, facility policy assessments, and the application of our professional acumen, we establish the facts and hold them up to the light of national standards. Our unwavering commitment to accountability ensures that any departure from accepted standards of care is brought to the forefront, paving the way for justice to prevail.

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Howe LNC helps firms like yours take on larger, more complex medical cases without a full medical team on-staff. Our LNCs have over 80 years of combined experience and can support you at every step of the process.

We hold a multistate license through the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) in Delaware, enabling service in all NLC-participating states.

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