Monday, October 14, 2019
Tool: Medical-legal partnership logic model
This logic model represents how MLP processes and activities affect learners, patients, and the health system in the short, medium, and long term....Read More
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Article: County Health Rankings’ profile of medical-legal partnership
In 2018, the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program highlighted medical-legal partnership (MLP) as an intervention working to improve health in local communities. The profile reviewed the existing evidence base for MLP services, its impact on disparities and examples of implementation....Read More
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Article: In pilot study, parents reported reduced stress after MLP services
Families living in poverty face many stressors created and maintained by economic hardship and unaddressed legal and social needs. As medical-legal partnerships aim to address and solve unmet legal and social needs, this pilot study at Rutgers examines whether MLP-involved parents perceived themselves as stressed, to what they attributed their stress, and whether they reported a reduction in stress when their legal cases were closed. The study shows that, following a medical-legal partnership intervention, parents had improvements in perceived stress....Read More
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Patients-to-policy story: Ensuring people with chronic conditions maintain access to care
Whitman-Walker Health's medical-legal partnership helped prevent platinum insurance plans that were widely used by patients with chronic illnesses from being eliminated in the D.C. Marketplace. Through advocacy with the insurance commissioner and insurance companies, thousands of patients maintained access to care....Read More