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

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Tool: Sample health center memorandum of understanding (MOU) from Florida

This is a sample memorandum of understanding (MOU) created by Grace Medical Home, Inc. and Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. that outlines their medical-legal partnership....Read More