Monday, October 14, 2019

Tool: Medical-legal partnership logic model

This logic model represents how MLP processes and activities affect learners, patients, and the health system in the short, medium, and long term....Read More

Monday, October 14, 2019

Brief: Legal Partnering for Child and Family Health

This brief focuses on the important role that legal interventions can play in accelerating access to concrete supports in times of need for families with young children. It calls upon early childhood systems to robustly integrate legal partnering into its concrete support “toolbox”—so that all families “know their rights” and more families can pursue those legal rights if they wish....Read More

Monday, June 10, 2019

White Paper: Clinician perceptions of medical-legal partnerships

Based on interviews with 40 clinicians in health care settings that offer vulnerable patients access to civil legal services, this white paper examines clinicians' perceptions related to their role and preferences when it comes to addressing social determinants of health. Using medical-legal partnership as one promising intervention, the paper illustrates the features of the model that clinicians perceive to be most attractive and beneficial for patient care. Among the paper's findings, clinicians reported feeling that legal services resolved patient issues efficiently and effectively, and that the co-location / accessibility of in-house legal services was one of the most valued aspects of the model....Read More

Monday, June 10, 2019

Webinar: Tapping into Medicaid financing streams

In early 2019, Manatt Health surveyed and then convened a group interview of 17 MLPs to identify common themes and trends across programs around strategies for sustaining and financing MLP programs. Leveraging the field's insights and Manatt Health’s expertise in financing social determinants of health, a recent webinar walked through current and potential financing opportunities for MLP activities, including several case studies illuminating innovative Medicaid funding opportunities. The full recording of that webinar along with the webinar slides are available for download....Read More