Monday, September 10, 2018
This medical-legal partnership origin story traces the Austin team's planning process, how the nuts and bolts of the partnership came together, and how it's expanded over time. Through interviews with more than a dozen front-line staff and administrators, the story also looks at how legal services fit in the health center's broader social determinants of health strategy. Partners at People's and Texas Legal Services Center share why they think the real value of medical-legal partnership is in using legal expertise to inform clinical processes so that the health center is as safe and empowering a place for patients to receive care as possible....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
Monday, August 6, 2018
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and how they operate, and it shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services....Read More
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
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
