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
• 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

2010
2009
2008