Monday, March 30, 2020

Webinar: Operating a Medical-Legal Partnership During COVID-19, A Town Hall

This town hall conversation explored strategies for coordinating health and legal efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, and ways to navigate medical-legal partnership operational challenges during the crisis. Special attention was given to ongoing work nationally to prevent evictions during the pandemic....Read More

Monday, January 27, 2020

Trainings to develop, implement, and sustain SDOH interventions

The Social Determinants of Health Academy is a HRSA-funded virtual training series designed to help staff from health centers, health center controlled networks, and primary care associations develop, implement, and sustain SDOH interventions in their clinics and communities. The SDOH Academy’s website hosts dozens of free recorded trainings....Read More

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

White paper: Investing in Legal Advocacy for Better Health

This white paper examines three years (FY 2015-2017) of financial benefit to Seattle Children's Hospital and its patients as a result of medical-legal partnership services. The program recovered nearly $700,000 for the hospital, helped patients avoid over 100 days of hospital admissions, and helped 23 families gain $469,446 total in additional financial benefits....Read More

Monday, October 14, 2019

Tool: Medical-legal partnership patient and community health pre/post survey

The AHEAD Medical-Legal Partnership Patient and Community Health Pre/Post Survey provides a core set of questions that assess the impact of legal interventions on a patient’s perception of her health and the quality of services receives from an MLP. The survey is designed for broad applicability across different intervention models and describes specific administration instructions for the pre- and post- surveys in detail....Read More