New MLPs in Somerville, MA, Jonesboro, AR and Chester, PA
There are currently medical-legal partnerships at over 200 hospitals and health centers, including new MLPs in Somerville, MA, Jonesboro, AR and Chester, PA
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Save the Date for the 2011 MLP Summit!
Please join us for the 6th annual Medical-Legal Partnership Summit March 24-25, 2011, in Baltimore, MD. Information on registration, hotels and session applications will be online soon.
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Read Jane and Grace's Story
Jane's eleven year-old, hearing-impaired daughter Grace lives with cerebral palsy. Jane told Grace's pediatrician she was concerned her daughter's struggles in school were due to a lack of special support. The pediatrician made a referral to the lawyer down the hall.
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AMA Passes Resolution in Support of MLP
The American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution this week in support of medical-legal partnership (MLP) as a means to improve the health and well-being of patients. The resolution, which encourages providers to incorporate legal assistance into healthcare delivery, was approved by the House of Delegates at the AMA’s annual meeting in Chicago.
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Medical-Legal Partnership

Helping Vulnerable Individuals and Families Meet Their Basic Needs

Not every illness has a biological remedy.  A family forced to choose between food and heat in the winter months cannot be treated with a prescription or a vaccination.  Similarly, an asthmatic person will never breathe symptom free – no matter how much medication is administered – if he or she returns from the doctor’s office to mold-infested housing, as thousands do.

All over the U.S., health care providers who take care of low-income individuals and families are turning to a new specialist to help keep them healthy and safe: lawyers who practice poverty law.

Medical-legal partnerships integrate lawyers in a health setting to help patients navigate the complex government and community systems that often hold solutions to many social determinants of health – income supports for food insecure families, utility shut-off protection during cold winter months, and mold removal from the home of asthmatics.

Read more about how MLP went from a local program to a National Center

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Pro Bono Partners Invest in MLP

In 2009, Pro Bono partners provided over $13 million in in-kind services to medical-legal partnerships across the U.S.

Click here for more info from the 2010 MLP Network Site Survey.

Find out more about the role of pro bono in MLP by visiting the American Bar Association's Medical-Legal Partnerships Pro Bono Support Project: Pro Bono as a Healing Art website.