Tool: Sample VA memorandum of understanding (MOU) from Los Angeles
Monday, June 3, 2019
Download the Los Angeles VA medical-legal partnership MOU
Before delivering medical-legal partnership services, health care and legal team members discuss their goals for the program, the responsibilities of each partner, and how they will measure success. When health care organizations choose to contract legal services from a community-based legal services organization (rather than hire lawyers directly to their staff), the decisions partners make should be documented in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a renewable agreement entered into for a set period of time. Drafting an MOU helps formalize the decisions made and ensure that all participants acknowledge the parameters of the relationship.
This is a sample MOU created by Inner City Law Center and the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team of the Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System outlining their medical-legal partnership for Veterans.