Melinda Malecki

Melinda Malecki is a Health Law attorney with over 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 has extensive experience in the area of physician representation, particularly 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 strongest skills is managing risk for healthcare organizations, particularly managing self-insured retentions or trusts. She is frequently retained to create or redesign a risk management program for facilities that need to pass an accreditation or are at risk of losing insurance coverage or simply want to decrease their overall cost of risk.

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 and consulting in 2000.

Ms. Malecki serves on the boards of the Oak Park Animal Care League and Path to Recovery Foundation which supports recovery for individuals and families struggling with drug addiction. For more than 20 years she served as a board member for PCC Community Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center in Oak Park, Illinois and surrounding areas.