Designing and Developing a Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Cancer Patients' Health-Harming Legal Needs

Journal Article
Written By NCMLP

Description

The Georgetown University's Cancer Legal Assistance and Well-being Project launched in 2020 as a medical-legal partnership that works with health care providers at a Washington, D.C. safety-net hospital to treat the health-harming legal needs of historically and intentionally marginalized patients with cancer. Preliminary data support the estimate that the project has secured over $700,000 for patients in the form of insurance coverage, disability benefits and other income supports, paid leave, and debt relief. The findings were published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

 

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Authors

  • Allison B. Dowling

  • Vicki W. Girard

  • Megan E. Gordon

  • Abigail Sweeney

  • Christopher M. Gallagher

  • Amy D. Ly

  • Lisa P. Kessler

  • Deborah F. Perry

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ncmlp@gwu.edu

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