Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased rates of unemployment. As a result, more and more people are facing housing evictions and foreclosures that threaten their health and well-being, and this trend will continue in the coming months. This tip sheet outlines three ways health care providers and staff can work with legal aid attorneys to help patients facing possible evictions and foreclosures while also working to strengthen long-term housing protections....Read More
Monday, April 13, 2020
The Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT) is a medical home treatment model being implemented at over 50 VA medical centers (VAMCs) nationwide. The goal of the H-PACT model is to provide the collaborative care necessary to tackle the physical, mental, and social determinants of health which can lead to homelessness. Currently, one-quarter (25.9 percent) of VA health care systems that have an H-PACT, also have an on-site VA medical-legal partnership. This brief highlights the potential for partnership between the legal community and H-PACTs at VAMCs, and profiles MLPs that are successfully tackling the unmet legal needs of Veterans experiencing and at-risk of homelessness through this approach....Read More
Thursday, April 2, 2020
This tip sheet offers eight strategies every medical-legal partnerships can adopt to respond to operational challenges presented by COVID-19 and to help meet the needs of their communities during the pandemic....Read More
Monday, June 10, 2019
Based on interviews with 40 clinicians in health care settings that offer vulnerable patients access to civil legal services, this white paper examines clinicians' perceptions related to their role and preferences when it comes to addressing social determinants of health. Using medical-legal partnership as one promising intervention, the paper illustrates the features of the model that clinicians perceive to be most attractive and beneficial for patient care. Among the paper's findings, clinicians reported feeling that legal services resolved patient issues efficiently and effectively, and that the co-location / accessibility of in-house legal services was one of the most valued aspects of the model....Read More
