Wednesday, April 13, 2016
A study comparing patients who received a medical-legal partnership (MLP) intervention to a comparison group found that the MLP group were more likely to achieve adequate, affordable, and stable housing than those in a comparison group....Read More
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Pediatric care facilities are increasingly incorporating social determinants of health into the way they structure the treatment of children, particularly those living below the poverty line. In this Pediatrics artiicle, the authors discuss the success of medical-legal partnership services in reducing stress, improving overall health and well-being, and leading community-level change to improve health care....Read More
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center examined how local agencies that enforce housing policies can partner with the health care organizations to pinpoint potential clusters of high asthma morbidity....Read More
Thursday, August 13, 2015
This article discusses how a medical-legal partnership can enhance a health care organization's ability to address the “six aims for improvement” identified by the Institute of Medicine’s report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the Twenty-first Century. The authors explain how a health care organization can incorporate medical-legal partnership quality indicators into their organization’s scorecard to increase productivity and performance....Read More
