The former chief legal counsel for Aria Health, Rafael Villalobos, has joined Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott as a member, allowing the firm to offer a greater variety of health law services.

Villalobos joined Eckert Seamans effective Tuesday. He was chief legal counsel at Aria Health for more than 10 years, as well as senior vice president and director of insurance and claims. His position was eliminated in August, several months after Aria, a three-hospital health system, was acquired by Thomas Jefferson University.