Wednesday, March 26, 2014
This article describes the unique role, needs, and strength of a rural health system in the Affordable Care Act healthcare landscape, and discusses how medical-legal partnership practice can be leveraged and synchronized with community benefits requirements....Read More
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
This article provides a detailed analysis of how common hardships can become health-harming legal needs, and outlines pathways for fuller integration of medical-legal partnership services in the healthcare setting. The authors suggest legal needs should become a "vital sign" screened for and addressed as a regular part of health care....Read More
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
This article examines medical-legal partnership (MLP) through the lens of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The author outlines the overlap in goals between the ACA and MLP, including a focus on keeping patients healthy rather than treating them when they are sick, re-organizing the delivery system to create a more "patient-centered" focus, and pushing for increased collaboration among providers. It goes on to discuss opportunities for medical-legal partnership in the new health care system....Read More
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Through real-life stories of individual clients and successful advocacy efforts, this article describes medical-legal partnerships' unique ability to improve community health, and examines ways in which working in health care settings can help the legal profession adopt more preventative practices....Read More
