Friday, October 23, 2020

Tool: Medical-legal partnership workflows for screening and legal services

This graphic depicts a typical workflow for screening, legal services, follow-up, and continuous quality improvement activities at a medical-legal partnership (MLP). It can be used by health care and legal partners to plan for and improve their own MLP workflows....Read More

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Toolkit: A planning, implementation, and practice guide for building and sustaining a health center-based MLP

This toolkit provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership (MLP). The toolkit can be used both by health centers new to MLP who want help with the initial planning process and by health centers that are already actively providing legal services, but want help facilitating continuous quality improvement conversations to address issues like low/high referral volumes or funding instability....Read More

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Literature review: Making the case for medical-legal partnerships, 2013-2020

This brief summarizes peer-reviewed observational studies from January 2013 - August 2020 that demonstrate evidence of medical-legal partnerships' impact in five areas....Read More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Case Study: Building a statewide subscription model for MLP services in Montana with help from a PCA

Primary care associations (PCAs) and Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) are state and regional hubs for health centers that frequently lead training and technical assistance activities and help scale a range of health center-related clinical and operational innovations. From this vantage point, PCAs and HCCNS are uniquely situated to serve as a bridge between individual health centers and prospective legal partners, as well as help plan for the financing, operation, and sustainability of medical-legal partnership (MLP) activities. This case study looks at how the Montana Primary Care Association helped develop a statewide, subscription model for MLP services....Read More