Monday, December 19, 2016
This brief examines how 13 hospitals and health centers screen their patients for health-harming legal needs. It describes who gets screened and how, the way screening information is recorded and shared with legal partners, and lessons learned....Read More
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
This brief examines how medical-legal partnerships can become part of population health management strategies as healthcare organizations adapt to new reimbursement models....Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
A study at Boston Medical Center, a large urban safety-net hospital, incorporated medical-legal partnership services into an intervention for families of healthy newborns receiving primary care. Low-income families assigned to the intervention group were found to have an increase in use of preventive health care and had greater access to concrete supports....Read More
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A one-year pilot study of high-need, high-use patients at Lancaster General Health showed that 95 percent of patients studied had 2-3 civil legal problems each. The study also found that when those problems were addressed, inpatient and Emergency Department use dropped 50 percent, and overall health care costs went down 45 percent. ...Read More
