Total CME Credit Hours: 1 Category II (Informal)
Join attorney Melinda Malecki for an insightful discussion on the buying and selling of chiropractic practices in Illinois. With 30 years of experience in Health Law, she offers a comprehensive understanding of corporate, regulatory, and risk management issues. Ms. Malecki's expertise includes representing physicians in contract negotiations, practice sales and acquisitions, and resolving corporate disputes.
This webinar is sponsored by Malecki Brooks Ford Law Group, LLC
Melinda Malecki is a Health Law attorney with 30 years of corporate, regulatory, and risk management experience. She provides legal counsel, corporate compliance, and risk management services to physicians, practitioners, safety net hospitals and healthcare organizations, including federally qualified health centers.?
Ms. Malecki began her career as a risk manager at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. Later, she became the Director of Risk Management and Legal Services at West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park, and eventually became the Medical Center’s General Counsel. While working for West Suburban, Ms. Malecki managed all legal services for the Medical Center’s administration and staff. She directed all insurance purchasing and significantly reduced the Medical Center’s financial exposure due to insurance expenses. She began the private practice of law in 2000 and continues to consult in all of the foregoing areas.?
Ms. Malecki has extensive experience in the area of physician representation, including contract negotiation, sales and purchases of practices, and corporate disputes. Her work as a hospital attorney benefits her physician clients in dealing with such matters as medical staff issues and contractual negotiations.?
One of Ms. Malecki’s greatest skills is handling risk management issues for healthcare organizations, particularly managing self insured retentions or trusts. She is frequently retained to create or redesign a risk management function / program for facilities that need to pass an accreditation or are at risk of losing insurance coverage.?
Ms. Malecki serves on the board of the Oak Park Animal Care League.
