Thursday, September 26, 2019
The Association of American Medical Colleges’ Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) initiative released three tools to help medical-legal partnerships measure their impact on health and health equity. All of the tools are available on the AHEAD website. The AHEAD Medical-Legal Partnership Patient and Community Health Pre/Post Survey...Read More
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Six children's hospitals and seven legal organizations are meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas today to kick off Better Team for Child Health. This children's hospital learning network will study the impact of legal care on child health and develop recommendations on how to better build an interprofessional healthcare team that responds...Read More
Friday, June 6, 2014
NCMLP's Ellen Lawton and Megan Sandel wrote an article for the Huffington Post this week where they discuss the social sources of illness, why preventing illness requires healthier policies, and why healthcare can't do it alone. We're Asking Health Care to Fix Something It Didn't Break We're starting to understand...Read More
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership was awarded a 3-year National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to cultivate and support medical-legal partnerships at community health centers across the country. The award comes with $300,000 in grant funds per year. Medical-legal partnerships (MLP) bring...Read More
