About Us

What is medical-legal partnership?

Medical-legal partnership is a healthcare and legal services delivery model that aims to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals, children and families by integrating legal assistance into the medical setting.  MLPs address social determinants of health and seek to eliminate barriers to healthcare in order to help vulnerable populations meet their basic needs and stay healthy.  Click here to read more
 

National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership supports the expansion, advancement, and integration of medical-legal partnership by providing technical assistance to partnership sites, facilitating the MLP Network, promoting leadership in law and medicine and coordinating national research and policy activities related to preventive law, health disparities, and the social determinants of health.  What We Do
 

MLP Network

Legal providers (attorneys and paralegals) and front-line health care providers (doctors, nurses and social workers) serving vulnerable communities are now partnered at over 200 hospitals and health centers nationwide.  These partnerships serve children, the elderly, patients with cancer, pregnant women, the formerly incarcerated reentry community and other vulnerable populations.  MLP Network Map

The emerging MLP Network is a voluntary affiliation that signals participation in a variety of activities.  Over the last five years, these activities have varied including participation in annual conferences, MLP leadership and project-based initiatives, regional collaborations and resource sharing.

The National Center is currently working to formalize the MLP Network, including membership benefits and requirements.  More information will be available in the fall 2010.