Posts Categorized: Stories

Monday, October 16, 2017

“Working with lawyers removes the excuse of non-compliance.”

Dr. Bob Pettignano from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta says having lawyers on the team make residents and physicians dig deeper when patients don’t comply with medical treatments....Read More

Saturday, October 14, 2017

“MLP informs our policy initiatives from the patient level.”

Bob Marsalli, Executive Director of the Montana Primary Care Association, shares how medical-legal partnerships can bring the patient perspective to policy efforts....Read More

Friday, October 13, 2017

Preventing homelessness in 15 minutes

When a patient’s mother called pediatrician Megan Sandel to say her housing voucher was going to be cancelled and her family was going to become homeless, the medical-legal partnership was able to prevent it…in 15 minutes....Read More

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Housing help that paved the way for cancer surgery and remission

When a Nebraska woman canceled her mastectomy because she received an eviction notice and feared she would not have a place to recover, the medical-legal partnership team went to work. Oncologist Kerry Rodabaugh recalls the journey that ended with remission....Read More