Thursday, August 3, 2017
Report describes the patients screened and treated by medical-legal partnerships in 2016, and how these programs advance health and wellbeing. It also offers insights into the organizations that participate in these programs....Read More
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Report addresses challenges in and possibilities for legally and ethically sharing patient-client information between health care and legal partner organizations within the framework of existing privacy laws....Read More
Friday, July 14, 2017
This article is a review of observational studies, published from January 1993-January 2016, to investigate the capacity of medical-legal partnerships to address legal and health disparities. The authors identified 13 articles for qualitative analysis from an initial pool of 355 records, four of which directly addressed the impact of MLP intervention on patient wellbeing and/or patient utilization of health care services....Read More
Saturday, April 1, 2017
This article describes the development and operations of medical-legal partnerships at four Veterans Health Administration medical centers that serve veterans who are homeless or who have serious mental illness. The authors briefly report on the characteristics of 700 veterans served by these MLPs from 2014 to 2016, and discuss how MLPs can fit within the interdisciplinary, comprehensive system of care provided by VHA....Read More
