

Health Care Resolutions
401 East Elm Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
610.834.8566 direct
610.834.1190 fax
jruddell@hcresolve.com
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- A range of legal consulting and program design
services focused on:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, emphasizing
mediation and facilitated resolutions
- Improved communication as risk management
and care quality tools
- Prevention, early identification and resolution
of potential claims
- Program design and systems operational integration
- These services are utilized by:
- Hospitals and delivery systems
- Medical schools
- Physician groups
- Medical societies
- Insurers
- Health lawyers
- Governmental agencies
- Served as General Counsel for Main Line Health
and Jefferson Health System
- Medicare Beneficiary Mediation Program consultant
and administrator in 3 states
- Pennsylvania Medical Society – Special Project on Mediation
and Communication – Pilot Early Intervention Program with County
Society and Bar Association
- Design and implementation of medical liability
early intervention program
for major teaching hospital
- Selection and training of external mediator panels for a medical college
and an academic medical center
- Communications and mediation trainer/consultant
for national insurer’s
claims management company
- Author, Effective Patient-Physician Communication: Strengthening Relationships,
Improving Patient Safety, Limiting Medical Liability,Wescott
Professional Publications 2004, 2006
- Member, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Med-Mal Mediation
Task Force
- Past-Consultant to the Medical Mediation Demonstration
Project of the Pew Project on Medical Liability in
Pennsylvania
- Founding board member, Women Business Leaders in
the Health Care Industry
- Recipient, Philadelphia Bar Association Women in
the Profession’s Award for Outstanding Corporate
Leadership
- Member local, state and national health law and conflict resolution
organizations, holding various leadership positions
- B.A. Earlham College
- Psychology/Sociology
- J.D. Rutgers University School of Law
- Law Review, Articles Editor
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