Friday, October 23, 2020

Tool: Medical-legal partnership workflows for screening and legal services

This graphic depicts a typical workflow for screening, legal services, follow-up, and continuous quality improvement activities at a medical-legal partnership (MLP). It can be used by health care and legal partners to plan for and improve their own MLP workflows....Read More

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Toolkit: A planning, implementation, and practice guide for building and sustaining a health center-based MLP

This toolkit provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership (MLP). The toolkit can be used both by health centers new to MLP who want help with the initial planning process and by health centers that are already actively providing legal services, but want help facilitating continuous quality improvement conversations to address issues like low/high referral volumes or funding instability....Read More

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Tool: Sample health center memorandum of understanding (MOU) from Florida

This is a sample memorandum of understanding (MOU) created by Grace Medical Home, Inc. and Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. that outlines their medical-legal partnership....Read More

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Digest of COVID-19 resources for medical-legal partnerships

The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating health and economic disparities. As urgent health and legal needs intersect during this crisis, medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are uniquely positioned to respond. While communities’ needs change and grow every day, MLPs can focus their efforts by pivoting their services to respond to the issue(s) most frequently identified by their health care providers and patient populations, and by reinforcing fundamentals of their MLP practice. This digest contains additional resources to help MLPs respond to the pandemic. ...Read More