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
Monday, June 15, 2020
The Health Center Association of Nebraska, in partnership with Health Outreach Partners, created a seven-episode podcast exploring different aspects of health center enabling services. Episode four is a conversation with Ellen Lawton, director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, who shares how health centers can integrate community legal services into their on‐going SDOH work, and how to think about measuring the value of legal services in the health center context. The interview focuses on how to align enabling services screening, data collection and interventions with medical-legal partnership services within a specific population or SDOH domain. ...Read More
Sunday, June 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating health and economic disparities. As urgent health and legal needs intersect during this crisis, medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are uniquely positioned to respond. While communities’ needs change and grow every day, MLPs can focus their efforts by pivoting their services to respond to the issue(s) most frequently identified by their health care providers and patient populations, and by reinforcing fundamentals of their MLP practice. This digest contains additional resources to help MLPs respond to the pandemic. ...Read More
