Posts Categorized: Populations

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Guest Article: Helping Family Caregivers Through the Lens of a Medical-Legal Partnership

By Randye Retkin and Naji’a Tameez, Attorneys with LegalHealth, a Division of New York Legal Assistance Group

What do you do when you are responsible for the care of your elderly or disabled loved one, but you are not...Read More

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Ensuring people with chronic conditions maintain access to care

When Whitman-Walker Health in Washington, D.C. hired its first in-house lawyer in 1986, it was to help HIV and AIDS patients write...Read More

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Increasing nutritional supports for newborns

When Javana Bradford took her one-month old daughter, Augyst, for a checkup at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, pediatrician Melissa Klein asked...Read More

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Keeping children safe from lead poisoning

The first sign that a home has a lead hazard is usually when a child tests positive for lead poisoning. Despite the...Read More