Network Site Survey
Since 2006, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership has surveyed medical-legal partnership sites across the country annually on a range of topics from funding to evaluation to program challenges. Participating sites are medical-legal partnerships that form the MLP National Network.
The Site Survey has three main goals:
- Learn what MLP partnership sites are doing in a broad range of programmatic areas;
- Understand and describe site successes and challenges; and
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Describe the overall impact of the MLP Network.
2011 MLP Network Site Survey
The 2011 MLP Site Survey was administered in January and Fabruary, 2011. Fifty-eight programs comprising 70% of the MLP Network completed the survey, while 83 programs provided programmatic information.
In 2010, the MLP Network:
- Provided legal assistance to more than 34,000 individuals and families in 235 health institutions nationwide.
- Trained more than 10,000 front-line health care staff, including 3,000 residents, to recognize the links between unmet legal needs and health
- Recovered $5.3 million in public benefits for vulnerable individuals and families.
- Recovered $692,000 for hospitals and health centers in Medicaid appeals.
- Engaged in dozens of initiatives on behalf of patient-families to change institutional and regulatory systems.
- Received over $10.6 million in cash funding from legal, health, foundation, academic and government partners.
Read the executive summary here.
Previous MLP Network Site Surveys
All too often we’re viewed as the place of last resort, but this program [MLP] illustrates that institutions which care for the poor can be the most innovative and ambitious in making changes that improve health status.
Elaine Ullian, Former President & CEO, Boston Medical Center
