Monday, December 7, 2015
This article reviews recently promulgated Internal Revenue Service regulations for nonprofit hospitals seeking tax exemption and a new estimate of national hospital community benefit spending, and analyzes how they point to the value of hospitals working with community partners to address the social determinants of health. It then explains how unmet legal needs function as health determinants, and suggests how hospitals' participation in medical-legal partnerships can address those needs....Read More
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center examined how local agencies that enforce housing policies can partner with the health care organizations to pinpoint potential clusters of high asthma morbidity....Read More
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
This customizable screening tool, complete with patient authorization forms, can be used to screen for health-harming legal needs in a variety of health care settings....Read More
Thursday, August 13, 2015
This article discusses how a medical-legal partnership can enhance a health care organization's ability to address the “six aims for improvement” identified by the Institute of Medicine’s report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the Twenty-first Century. The authors explain how a health care organization can incorporate medical-legal partnership quality indicators into their organization’s scorecard to increase productivity and performance....Read More
