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

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Electronic Exchange of Data and “Closing The Loop”

This Case Study provides a concrete example of how a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in Iowa set up electronic referrals in the EHR as well as the ability to “Close the Loop” via electronic updates from the legal partner....Read More

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

VA Medical-Legal Partnerships: Implementation Guidance and Suggested Measures

This guide offers a framework for identifying the areas of VA MLP operations that may benefit from implementation guidance and potential measures for gauging MLP performance....Read More

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Expanding VA-housed legal clinics to serve Veterans

This issue brief highlights how VA-housed legal clinics can expand their work to serve more Veterans in a targeted manner by adopting best practices from medical-legal partnerships....Read More