Thursday, May 30, 2019
The last decade has seen steady growth of Veteran-specific MLPs across the country, from only one in 2009 to thirty-one as of January 2019. This issue brief provides a look at the state of the VA MLP field – why and how legal services have grown in VA Medical Centers, where VA MLPs are operating today, and considerations for the future. ...Read More
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
This policy summary outlines current ways the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs supports access to civil legal aid and medical-legal partnership services for Veterans. It also highlights steps Congress and various federal agencies can take to support the growth of these services....Read More
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
This fact sheet draws on national survey data from these organizations and their partnering legal organizations to describe programs' average budgets as well as a variety of health, legal, and philanthropic funding streams that currently fund MLPs. It also discusses how MLPs are adapting to meet their funding challenges and highlights examples of programs implementing innovative Medicaid financing models to pay for MLP services....Read More
Friday, April 5, 2019
This case study delves into the inner-workings of the largest medical-legal partnership in the country between NYC Health + Hospitals and the LegalHealth division of the New York Legal Assistance Group. It illustrates both how the use of patient-facing legal services fits into the health system's mission, and how LegalHealth structures a variety of legal clinics across the NYC Health + Hospitals system to meet the legal needs of many different types of marginalized patients. Lessons learned from this partnership serve as an example to other public or non-profit hospital systems that may be interested in incorporating legal services into a holistic strategy to address the health-harming social and other non-medical factors that affect their patients. ...Read More
