Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Article outlines how, why, and to what degree social determinants of health screening practices are used across MLPs. It finds that, despite the importance of identifying patients’ social and legal needs in order to improve health, systematic, protocol-driven screening is not yet being used to its fullest extent within these organizations....Read More
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Report describes the patients screened and treated by medical-legal partnerships in 2016, and how these programs advance health and wellbeing. It also offers insights into the organizations that participate in these programs....Read More
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Report addresses challenges in and possibilities for legally and ethically sharing patient-client information between health care and legal partner organizations within the framework of existing privacy laws....Read More
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council conducted a study to examine civil legal needs among people experiencing homelessness and the extent to which medical-legal partnerships exist in homeless service sites. More than 90 percent of the homeless service sites reported that their patients experienced at least one civil legal issue, particularly around housing, employment, health insurance, and disability benefits. However, only half of all sites reported screening patients for civil legal issues, and only 10 percent had a medical-legal partnership....Read More
