Wednesday, July 22, 2015
In Worcester, Massachusetts, more than one in ten children suffers from asthma. Recently the city's civil legal aid organization, health care institutions, and the city Department of Public Health began using a multi-sector medical-legal partnership approach to address housing and clinical needs of high-risk asthma patients. This post on the Health Affairs blog describes that partnership and their early findings....Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
A study at Boston Medical Center, a large urban safety-net hospital, incorporated medical-legal partnership services into an intervention for families of healthy newborns receiving primary care. Low-income families assigned to the intervention group were found to have an increase in use of preventive health care and had greater access to concrete supports....Read More
Friday, April 24, 2015
This article explains how incorporating advocacy and legal services directly into a clinical setting provides better outcomes for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities who might not otherwise have access to critically needed services. ...Read More
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A one-year pilot study of high-need, high-use patients at Lancaster General Health showed that 95 percent of patients studied had 2-3 civil legal problems each. The study also found that when those problems were addressed, inpatient and Emergency Department use dropped 50 percent, and overall health care costs went down 45 percent. ...Read More
