Posts Categorized: Stories

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Helping families keep their heat and lights on

To help chronically ill patients at Boston Medical Center keep their utilities on during cold Boston winters, the hospital’s medical-legal partnership started writing indiviudal protection letters. Unable to keep up with the demand, they turned their attention to strengthening the protection laws to help families upstream....Read More

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Making legislative changes to address head trauma

When more and more children were being admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with head and neck injuries, their medical-legal partnership traced the problem to state booster seat laws. Dr. Bob Pettignano shares what happened next....Read More

Sunday, September 3, 2017

When cancer care is more than chemotherapy

Being told you have cancer is overwhelming, so is undergoing treatment. But for Lonnie Evans, it was hard to focus on getting better when he couldn't keep working and was denied disabilities benefits and public health insurance....Read More

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Ending the trade off between food and medication

Faced with making choices between food and medicine, Norris Nicholson chose to eat. But without his medications, his heart became weaker and he suffered multiple heart attacks. He had to get insurance if he was going to get better....Read More