National Center
Vision
Raising the bar for health
Mission
The National Center promotes the advancement of medical-legal partnership to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations by transforming health and legal systems.
What We Do
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership supports the expansion, advancement, and integration of the medical-legal partnership model through:
- Technical assistance and support for partnership sites;
- Sample training materials;
- Leadership and project support for medical-legal partnerships;
- Annual Medical-Legal Partnership Summit;
- Facilitation of the MLP Network;
- Promotion of leadership in law and medicine; and,
- Coordination of national research and evaluation and policy activities related to preventive law, health disparities, and the social determinants of health.
History of National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Our community counts on us as a safety net hospital, whether or not they are disadvantaged patients, we have a very strong standing in the community. I think its things like this, innovations like this, that demonstrate to the community that we are here for you and that we are thinking about how to improve. We aren’t willing to stay with the status quo. I think it improves our standing.
Dr. Tyler Aguinaldo, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center



