Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Pediatric care facilities are increasingly incorporating social determinants of health into the way they structure the treatment of children, particularly those living below the poverty line. In this Pediatrics artiicle, the authors discuss the success of medical-legal partnership services in reducing stress, improving overall health and well-being, and leading community-level change to improve health care....Read More
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
