Why Us?
Partners Melinda Malecki and Mary Hoffman have a combined experience of over 75 years in the healthcare industry-to include clinical, legal and business positions. We have worked directly in various healthcare settings that provide us with insight and understanding of the culture and expectations of the healthcare environment. We are pragmatic, efficient and effective in tailoring a roadmap for change for each client.
Why Us?
Partners Melinda Malecki and Mary Hoffman have a combined experience of over 75 years in the healthcare industry-to include clinical, legal and business positions. We have worked directly in various healthcare settings that provide us with insight and understanding of the culture and expectations of the healthcare environment. We are pragmatic, efficient and effective in tailoring a roadmap for change for each client.
Melinda Malecki, JD, MS
Melinda is a Health Law attorney with over 30 years of corporate, regulatory, and risk management experience. As a founding member of Malecki Brooks Ford Law Group, LLC, she provides legal counsel, corporate compliance, and risk management services to physicians and other healthcare practitioners and executives.
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.
In the course of providing legal assistance to her clients, Ms. Malecki frequently becomes involved in employment disputes wherein practitioners are suspended or terminated from their employment for alleged compliance violations such as using the wrong “tone” in the workplace. She has written multiple newsletters on this subject and sees it as a legal and business minefield for her clients because not only are legal issues involved but a practical business strategy is needed. Thus, the creation of “Coaching Through Crisis” to help her clients get through what becomes a career crisis.
Mary Hoffman BSN, MBA
Mary is a highly experienced healthcare professional spanning both the clinical and business sides of the industry. She started her career on the clinical side of healthcare working in critical care settings in large academic medical centers in St. Louis and Chicago.
She then took this experience and transitioned into the role of Donor Coordinator working for organ and tissue programs. Upon receiving her MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, she began her business career at Baxter Healthcare where she was responsible for launching and growing markets domestically and internationally in the chronic dialysis field. During her last assignment, the division company grew to over $1 billion in global sales.
Since 2004 she has been an independent consultant providing strategic/business planning, global market development, marketing and sales consulting services to Fortune 100 corporations, start-ups and not-for-profits on the provider as well as supply side of healthcare. In this role, her focus has also broaden to include mentoring and coaching for her clients in various settings.
Joining forces with Ms Malecki, Coaching through Crisis solidifies the support and guidance that can be provided to healthcare executives as their navigate their careers. In addition to her professional life, she volunteers with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and The Saints.