Total CME Credit Hours: 1 Category II (Informal)
Join attorneys Patricia King and Melinda Malecki for an insightful discussion on the buying and selling of chiropractic practices in Illinois. With 60 years of experience in Health Law between them, the pair offer a comprehensive understanding of corporate, regulatory, and risk management issues. Ms. King's expertise includes physician practice acquisitions, joint ventures, physician employment, and healthcare financing and Ms. Malecki's 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
Patricia King has practiced Health Law for over thirty years. She began her career as an in-house attorney at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and then practiced for three years with the firm of Wood Lucksinger & Epstein before returning to Northwestern. From 1995 through 2001, she was the General Counsel for Rockford Health System in Rockford, Illinois. Beginning in 2003, she was an in-house attorney at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, serving as General Counsel from 2015 through 2020.
Ms. King has represented health care clients in a broad range of transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. Her transactional work has included work on information technology license agreements, managed care, joint ventures, physician employment, health care financing and educational affiliations.
She is especially interested in health information technology and has written extensively and given numerous presentations on HIT topics, including electronic health records, health information exchange and HIPAA privacy and security.
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.
