Tuesday, November 19, 2019

White paper: Investing in Legal Advocacy for Better Health

This white paper examines three years (FY 2015-2017) of financial benefit to Seattle Children's Hospital and its patients as a result of medical-legal partnership services. The program recovered nearly $700,000 for the hospital, helped patients avoid over 100 days of hospital admissions, and helped 23 families gain $469,446 total in additional financial benefits....Read More

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

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