Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability and Chronic Disease Discrimination Tip Sheet

Friday, July 22, 2022

Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination

In 2020, approximately 30 million adults and children in medically underserved communities received comprehensive, primary and preventative health care and enabling services from 1,462 HRSA Health Center Program awardees and look-alikes. According to research studies, this growing patient population has become increasingly complex with multiple chronic conditions and higher rates of social risk factors. In addition to ensuring that their patients with chronic conditions and disabilities are able to access care, health centers and look-alike programs are also well-positioned to help these patients prevent and address a very specific health-harming social risk factor: disability discrimination....Read More

Monday, May 2, 2022

The Unique Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships in Helping Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination | Webinar Series

The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP), in collaboration with Health Outreach Partners (HOP), offered four 90-minute webinars designed to help health...Read More

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health | 2022 Learning Collaborative

In Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health participants from health center and civil...Read More

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

MLP in Health Centers (Session 2): Best Practices in Screening and Data Collection for MLPs Serving Immigrant Populations

The second session of the Toolkit Webinar Series focused on the unique civil legal needs of immigrant populations. Omar Martinez, JD, MPH, MS (Temple University), Emily Arnold, PhD (UCSF), and Rodrigo Stein, MSc (La Clínica del Pueblo) spoke from their experience with immigrant-serving MLPs. The event ended with a case study on La Clínica del Pueblo's patient population and various partnerships....Read More