Tuesday, February 12, 2013
This white paper summarizes the salient literature on medical-legal partnership (MLP), and presents the need for legal and health services integration. It describes the essential components of the MLP approach as well as the process for delivering integrated services, and finally, explores the state of preliminary evidence of MLP impact on patients, providers, and communities at large....Read More
Friday, February 1, 2013
This article describes the collaboration between a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community-based psychosocial rehabilitation center and a nonprofit legal center that primarily addresses the civil legal issues of veterans who have mental illness and/or are homeless. ...Read More
Monday, January 21, 2013
Under the amended New York State Public Health Law (PHL), section 22 now allows legal entities to register with the Department of Health as “health-related legal services programs.” New York is the first state to recognize medical-legal partnership as an important health intervention and create a process to certify programs....Read More
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
This article examines how a pediatric-based medical-legal partnership identified and treated a cluster of 16 substandard housing units. Of the 45 children living in those unit, 36 percent had asthma, 33 percent had developmental delay or behavioral disorder, and 9 percent had an elevated lead level. The MLP was able to make repairs to the majority of the units and improve home environmental conditions for these children....Read More
