U.S. Partnerships
500 of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations integrate patient-centered legal services into care delivery for their communities.
These healthcare organizations include children’s hospitals, community health centers, health systems, hospitals, and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers.
Medical-legal partnerships have taken root at these healthcare organizations in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Map of U.S. Medical-Legal Partnerships
Number of health care organizations with medical-legal partnerships, by state.
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0No organizations
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1–3Orange
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4–6Teal
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7–9Blue
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10+Navy
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership • Colors from NCMLP Visual Identity Guide, selected for colorblind accessibility
It's a
Community Effort.
A few healthcare organizations directly employ attorneys to address patients’ health-harming social needs (the "build it as a direct service" model). The vast majority partner with a local legal services agency or an academic legal clinic in their community (the "contract it" model). Several of these legal organizations partner with multiple healthcare organizations to provide MLP services. The legal leadership and workforce for these programs currently come from:
170
legal aid agencies
58
law schools
Want to learn more about the partnerships?
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership periodically surveys the medical-legal partnership field to better understand the partners and MLP activities nationally. Those surveys are where we pull the numbers used in these infographics. If you want to learn more about the organizations that run medical-legal partnerships or about medical-legal partnership activities in your state, please contact us.