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
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
This article explores the feasibility of using electronic medical records (EMRs) as a way to assess and manage social needs in a clinical setting, particularly those serving vulnerable populations. Three case studies, including one on medical-legal partnership, highlight multiple functions that EMRs can perform to facilitate the integration of social determinants of health into clinical systems, including screening, triaging, referring, tracking, and data sharing....Read More
