Screening For Health-Harming Legal Needs

Report / Fact Sheet
Written By NCMLP

Description

This issue brief examines how 13 hospitals and health centers screen their patients for health-harming legal needs. It describes who gets screened and how, the way screening information is recorded and shared with legal partners, and lessons learned that can help other health care institutions more effectively screen their patients for legal needs and partner with civil legal aid agencies to address those needs. The information in the brief was gathered through the 2016 National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership Site Survey and interviews with partnerships in the field.

 

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Authors

  • Jennifer Trott, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management, The George Washington University

  • Marsha Regenstein, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, The George Washington University

This issue brief was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

 

Acknowledgment

This report is possible thanks to generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Kresge Foundation.

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