Friday, October 23, 2020
This infographic explains the difference between "social determinants of health," "social needs," and "legal needs." It also demonstrates how different team members--community health workers, case managers / social workers, and lawyers--each help address patients' social needs in different ways and where medical-legal partnership fits within a health care organization's larger response to social determinants of health (SDOH)....Read More
Friday, October 23, 2020
This graphic depicts a typical workflow for screening, legal services, follow-up, and continuous quality improvement activities at a medical-legal partnership (MLP). It can be used by health care and legal partners to plan for and improve their own MLP workflows....Read More
Thursday, October 1, 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
Friday, July 24, 2020
Older Americans experience a range of complex and overlapping health and social challenges. These challenges include chronic disease management, functional limitations, emotional and financial abuse, understanding and accessing long-term care options, understanding and navigating insurance plans, social isolation, and barriers to accessing health care. This fact sheet looks at how integrating medical and legal services for older health center patients can help mitigate these challenges and begin to comprehensively address problems that directly impact a patient’s health and well-being. It examines how these partnerships work, and highlights two medical-legal partnership programs for seniors in San Francisco and Boston....Read More
