Medical Consultant Chicago
Camille M. Renella
RN, Clinical Medical Ethicist, Legal Nurse Consultant
Meet Camille M. Renella
Camille, is President of her National Consulting Firm, C.M. RENELLA & ASSOCIATES. She is also founder and Executive Director for Optimal Patient-Centered Care (OPCC), an innovative and comprehensive approach to consistently delivering the highest level of Patient-Centered Care.
Camille is a veteran clinician and former Associate Faculty Member of The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Camille completed the Post Doctorate Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and served as Chief Ethicist in Patient Services at The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Children’s Hospital for ten years. Camille has an extensive clinical background in adult, child and home health nursing, as well as Nursing Administration and Multidisciplinary staff education.
Throughout her career Camille participated in Clinical Outreach Programs at San Juan, Puerto Rico and in a Capitol Hill, Washington DC nationwide initiative. Camille provided presentations at local, national and international conferences, was an Ambassador to Eastern European countries of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland where she participated in ethics discussions with members of the countries’ medical associations.
Camille was an Associate of the American Bar Association (ABA), ABA Board Member – New Member Committee – Health Law Division, also an ABA Associate Membership Chair – New Member Committee of the Health Law Division and was Vice President & Program Chairman of the Women’s Council of the Brain Research Foundation at the University of Chicago. Camille also served as a member of the Harrington Institute of Design, Chicago Alumni Board of Directors.
Camille is a member of:
- American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics
- Hastings Center
- People to People Ambassador Program
- US Ambassador for Medical Ethics
- American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC)
- American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) Chicago Chapter
- Institute of Medicine Chicago (IOMC) Fellow
- Health Practice Advisors
She also actively serves as an Institutional Review Board (IRB) Member at Northwestern University, Chicago.
In addition, Camille is the author of “It’s Your Decision,” a guide for patients in making informed medical decisions. Clinicians who provide this book to their patients will help them see you as their trusted guide, who supports their informed decisions and really cares about what matters to them. It is available online and in book stores.
Specialties:
- Optimal Patient-Centered Care (OPCC)–setting the standard for patient-centered care nationwide
- Clinical Medical Ethics
- Legal Nurse Consulting
- Education – Clinical Medical Ethics, Critical, Analytical Thinking, Law & Ethics for all Healthcare Professionals and Anatomy/Physiology/Disease Pathology/Medical Terminology among others
- Holistic patient education and consultation
- Education for objective, inclusive patient-centered care, along the continuum of care
How can Camille help you?
Camille continues to integrate her background in medicine, law and clinical medical ethics into everything she does. She is passionate about making healthcare the best it can be, for the benefit of patients, clinicians and organizations.
Providing Optimal Patient-Centered Care (OPCC), the national standard, will help you succeed in consistently delivering the highest level of patient-centered care, resulting in reducing or eliminating:
- patient and family dissatisfaction and mistrust
- communication errors and misunderstandings, leading to non-compliance and costly readmissions
- staff burn-out and turn-over
- derailed budgets
Camille is uniquely qualified to guide and support you as you take on your biggest challenges, and fulfill your goals.
Optimal Patient-Centered Care
“Helping healthcare organizations become their patients’ heroes”
Go to www.HCPSpecialists.com
to learn more about OPCC
Contact Camille
E-mail: crenella@att.net
Phone #: 312-485-1898
to discuss how she can help you achieve OPCC
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