Profile
Kira K. Strandquest practices within the Health Care Section. She represents doctors, hospitals and healthcare professionals navigating health care-related legal actions, business matters, and issues of regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Baird Holm, Kira was at a Philadelphia law firm, where she counseled and represented health care providers in matters related to facility regulation, Medicare/Medicaid, state and federal compliance, fraud and abuse, and related state and federal investigations. Her clients included hospitals and health systems, post-acute and long-term care facilities, and behavioral health providers.
Kira earned her J.D. from Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University where she served as President of the Student Bar Association and a member of Dickinson Law’s Moot Court, through which she participated in the National Immigration Law Moot Court Competition at New York University. While in law school, she clerked for the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and was a certified legal intern with the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office.
Before entering law school, Kira held a number of roles in public policy and community affairs in Omaha, Nebraska. She returned to Omaha to be closer to her mother, a professor at Creighton University’s Dental School. Having been born in India and raised in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, Kira is passionate about fostering cross-cultural competency and using it to better identify and understand client’s needs and values.
Areas of Practice
Education
- Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, J.D.
- Randolph College, B.A.
Bar & Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- American Health Law Association