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 the MLP Network.

2010 MLP Network Partnership Site Survey

The 2010 MLP Network Partnership Site Survey was administered in January 2010 to the 79 partnership sites in the MLP Network.  55 partnership sites (72% of the MLP Network) completed the on-line survey.  The study was deemed exempt by the IRB and asked partnership sites to report on 2009 program activities.  This data reflects a portion of MLP work across the U.S.

Read the executive summary here

Highlights:

In 2009, the MLP Network:

• Served nearly 13,000 individuals and families, and gave nearly 3,000 legal consultations to front-line health care staff.
• Trained nearly 8,000 front-line health care staff to recognize the links between unmet legal needs and health.
• Recovered over $5 million in public benefits for vulnerable individuals and families.
• Recovered over $800,000 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 $13 million in in-kind services from pro bono partners.
• Received over $8 million in cash funding from legal, health, foundation, academic and government partners.

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

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.