Posts Categorized: Stories

Monday, September 10, 2018

Using the Law to Inform Empowered Patient Care in Austin

The same year that People’s Community Clinic in Austin became a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2012, it began offering on-site legal...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