Samms was lead counsel in defending American Academic Health System in the injunctions to prevent the closure of Hahnemann Hospital and handled strategy and negotiations with both state and city officials as well as with partners and vendors such as Drexel University who had almost 600 residents displaced by the closure.

Samms worked efficiently, and aggressively to defend the litigation and to prevent other litigation to allow the bankruptcy to be filed and for an orderly closure of the hospital. Philadelphia had never experienced a closure of such an important institution and certainly not as swiftly and successfully.