Tuesday, August 11, 2020
This issue brief provides concrete examples of how health centers in Iowa, Montana, and Texas are leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) to complement their screening for the social determinants of health as well as to increase their capacity to deliver targeted medical-legal partnership-related interventions....Read More
Friday, July 24, 2020
Older Americans experience a range of complex and overlapping health and social challenges. These challenges include chronic disease management, functional limitations, emotional and financial abuse, understanding and accessing long-term care options, understanding and navigating insurance plans, social isolation, and barriers to accessing health care. This fact sheet looks at how integrating medical and legal services for older health center patients can help mitigate these challenges and begin to comprehensively address problems that directly impact a patient’s health and well-being. It examines how these partnerships work, and highlights two medical-legal partnership programs for seniors in San Francisco and Boston....Read More
Monday, July 20, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating Veterans' economic, social, and mental health needs. Legal assistance is needed more than ever to help address increased unemployment and housing challenges. This issue brief describes how the pandemic is affecting Veterans' social and legal needs, and details how five VA-based medical-legal partnerships are responding....Read More
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A recent study examined the impact of unmet legal needs on hospital readmission rates at the SIU Family and Community Medicine inpatient...Read More
