Wednesday, March 26, 2014
This article in the Journal of Legal Medicine details a pilot that integrated legal services into a federally-funded Healthy Start program intensive home visiting model, and the benefits for individuals and home visiting staff....Read More
Monday, January 21, 2013
Under the amended New York State Public Health Law (PHL), section 22 now allows legal entities to register with the Department of Health as “health-related legal services programs.” New York is the first state to recognize medical-legal partnership as an important health intervention and create a process to certify programs....Read More
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The Board of Trustees to the American Medical Association released a report that encourages physicians to develop medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) to help identify and resolve diverse legal issues that affect patients’ health and well-being....Read More
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics passed a resolution “encouraging closer and more frequent collaboration between legal service and medical professionals” and specifically promoted medical-legal partnership as a strategy to improve the health and well-being of children....Read More
