Tuesday, September 8, 2020
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
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
This report examines Florida's statewide medical-legal partnership network, including its history, planning process, statewide activities, and some of the important lessons that can help other states in their statewide efforts....Read More
Friday, April 5, 2019
This case study delves into the inner-workings of the largest medical-legal partnership in the country between NYC Health + Hospitals and the LegalHealth division of the New York Legal Assistance Group. It illustrates both how the use of patient-facing legal services fits into the health system's mission, and how LegalHealth structures a variety of legal clinics across the NYC Health + Hospitals system to meet the legal needs of many different types of marginalized patients. Lessons learned from this partnership serve as an example to other public or non-profit hospital systems that may be interested in incorporating legal services into a holistic strategy to address the health-harming social and other non-medical factors that affect their patients. ...Read More
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
