Monday, February 11, 2019
This fact sheet describes five complex care settings that have integrated medical-legal partnership services into care delivery. It also features data on the ways these partnerships have demonstrated initial success in improving both physical and mental health conditions as well as stabilizing income and housing for patients with complex conditions while also curbing costly overuse of health care services by addressing the root causes of patients’ problems....Read More
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of homeless individuals, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It includes data from a study in Connecticut and New York City highlighting the housing and mental health benefits of MLP services for homeless veterans....Read More
Thursday, August 9, 2018
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, April 4, 2018
When children on ventilators were unable to leave the hospital due to a home-nursing shortage caused by low Medicaid reimbursement rates, the medical-legal partnership at Seattle Children’s sued the state Medicaid Director and the Director of the Healthcare Authority to help kids return home. They then turned their attention to advocacy with the state agencies to fix the reimbursement rates....Read More
