Thursday, October 1, 2020

Literature review: Making the case for medical-legal partnerships, 2013-2020

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

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Article: Study shows unaddressed legal issues may be a risk factor for hospital readmission

A recent study examined the impact of unmet legal needs on hospital readmission rates at the SIU Family and Community Medicine inpatient...Read More

Monday, October 14, 2019

Tool: Medical-legal partnership patient and community health pre/post survey

The AHEAD Medical-Legal Partnership Patient and Community Health Pre/Post Survey provides a core set of questions that assess the impact of legal interventions on a patient’s perception of her health and the quality of services receives from an MLP. The survey is designed for broad applicability across different intervention models and describes specific administration instructions for the pre- and post- surveys in detail....Read More

Monday, October 14, 2019

Tool: Medical-legal partnership learner pre/post survey

The Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) Medical-Legal Partnership Learner Pre/Post Survey includes a core set of questions used to examine the effect—on staff member knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs—of various types of education about social determinants of health and medical-legal partnerships....Read More