Network Site Survey

Overview and Background

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
• Describe the overall impact of MLP Network.

2009 MLP Network Partnership Site Survey

The 2009 MLP Network Partnership Site Survey was administered in January 2009 to the 81 partnerships sites in the MLP Network.  Sixty-six partnership sites (81% of the MLP Network) completed the on-line survey.  The survey is part of an IRB-approved study and asked partnership sites to report on 2008 program activities.

Read the full report here

 

Highlights:

In 2008, the MLP Network:

• Expanded from 72 partnership sites serving 50 hospitals and 70 health centers in 2007 to 81 partnership sites serving 73 hospitals and 112 health centers.
• Served nearly 10,500 individuals and families, and gave more than 7,800 legal consultations to front-line health care staff.
• Trained 17,236 health care and legal staff.
• Utilized the services of more than 400 pro bono attorneys for individual representation of clients and other types of assistance, and received over 11,000 hours of non pro bono support from volunteers.
• Received nearly $8.5 million in cash funding from legal, health, foundation, academic and government partners. In 2007, the MLP Network raised $7 million for a combined two year $15.5 million investment in the model.
• Evaluated a range of activities, from the impact of advocacy training on front-line health care staff to the impact of legal intervention on health.

2008 MLP Network Partnership Site Survey

The 2008 MLP Network Site Survey was administered in January 2008 to the then 72 partnership sites in the MLP Network.  Fifty-four partnership sites (75% of the Network) completed the survey.

Read the full report here.