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- Home -- National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is helping to build an integrated health care ecosystem that is better equipped to improve individual and population health by addressing health-harming legal needs Medical-legal partnerships integrate the unique expertise of lawyers into health care settings to help health care providers and
- MLP legal needs screening tool - Medical-Legal Partnership
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, with pro bono support from The Advisory Board Company (ABC), reviewed 80 tools used by medical-legal partnerships across the country to screen for patients’ legal needs We then developed a common screening tool that can be used by hospitals and health centers in a range of settings
- How Legal Services Health Care Address SDOH - Medical-Legal Partnership
Legal expertise and services can play a critical role in helping the health care system address the root cause of some of the most challenging problems related to health and health care utilization The chart below shows some of the most common problems faced by vulnerable communities, and how legal expertise and services can help mitigate
- Impact - Medical-Legal Partnership
Impact Every year medical-legal partnerships help thousands of people in 49 states and the District of Columbia Last year, medical-legal partnerships helped more than 75,000 patients resolve legal issues that were impeding good health, trained more than 11,000 health care providers to better understand and screen patients for health-related social needs, and engaged in clinic- and policy
- Medical-Legal Partnerships Across the U. S.
And medical-legal partnerships are taking root at these health organizations in 49 states and the District of Columbia # of Health Orgs with MLPs 0 1-3 4-6 7-9 10+ legal aid agencies 58 law schools Read More For more information on MLPs around the country or to tell us about the MLP activities at your organization
- Resources - Medical-Legal Partnership
Legislation, Regulations, Resolutions that support endorse MLP activities NCMLP-Authored Reports Fact Sheets that describe the screening, delivery, evaluation, and funding of legal services in different health care settings Peer-Reviewed Research about MLP operations and the impact of legal services on health and health care Stories Case Studies that illustrate MLP projects and
- Partners of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
The first nurse-managed health center incorporated legal care and medical-legal partnership into its health care services in 2008 In 2013, NNCC received a grant from The Kresge Foundation to help its member sites develop medical-legal partnerships, and in 2016 it authored an issue brief on medical-legal partnership in nurse-led settings
- Webinars from the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Learning Opportunities We host a range of free webinars and learning collaboratives to help health organizations incorporate legal expertise and services into their approach to addressing health-related social needs, and to help legal organizations align their service delivery with health partners
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