Report

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children | Toledo issued a report to the community in 2010 which shares patient-clients stories, impact statistics and information about their partnership.

Boston Medical Center (BMC) health care providers and MLP | Boston’s legal team took a three-prong appoach to address the problem of utility access for low-income patients at BMC. They began by training front-line healthcare staff and providing direct legal assistance to low-income families, and then created institutional solutions that led to systemic impact across the state.

This report highlights the impact medical-legal partnership can have on systems change and underscores the need for active medical-legal partnerships to expand upon their dynamic service delivery model for a broader impact on policy.

CITATION:
Utility Access and Health: A Medical-Legal Partnership Patients-to-Policy Case Study. National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston. Boston: June 2010.

The MLPs in northern California organized a regional MLP policy initiative to investigate the housing code inspection practices in the San Francisco Bay Area. Medical students researched the link between inadequate housing and poor health and medical partners documented the health connection. A policy brief was written and disseminated in September 2009 with policy recommendations to improve access to healthy housing.

The report takes a close look at code enforcement policies and practices for dealing with moisture intrusion, ventilation, pest control and other housing issues that are particularly relevant to people with asthma.

The report was put together by the Medical-Legal Bay Area Regional Coalition.

Guide from Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston outlining how to train clinical partners in advocacy in each of the I-HELP issue areas.

It provides an overview of how clinical partners can advocate for their patients unmet basic needs and offers take home points, screening questions and case examples in each of the "I-HELP" issue areas.

CITATION:
Clinical Partners in Advocacy: How Can I-HELP? Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston. Boston: November 2009.

Report conducted by LegalHealth on the financial impact of their legal services on the New York City hospital they serve.

Financial Impact Study of LegalHealth Services to New York City Hospitals. LegalHealth. New York: November 2007. Research and Analysis by Jimmy Boyle and Ada Chiu.

Report from LegalHealth on a study that measured the impact of legal interventions on fifty-one of its clients with cancer.

Impact of Legal Interventions on Cancer Survivors. Legal Health. New York: January 2007. Randye Retkin, Julie Brandfield and Cathy Bacich.

Report on the Findings and Recommendations of PROJECT ACCESS: A Medical, Legal and Case Management Collaboration. Chicago, IL. Health & Disability Advocates, 2005. Barnickol L, Hirschman J, and Justicz J.

PROJECT ACCESS, an innovative medical, legal and case management collaboration, designed with the goal of increasing social supports and services for medically
fragile infants and their families, was implemented and carefully evaluated in Chicago between June 2000 and December 2004. This is the final report.

2007 healthcare recovery dollars report quantifying the amount of money recovered by the Southern Illinois Law and Health Project for the medical partner institutions.

2007 healthcare recovery dollars report quantifying the amount of money recovered by the Southern Illinois Law and Health Project for the medical partner institutions.