Resources
We publish research, tools, and lessons learned to help healthcare and legal organizations build and operate medical-legal partnerships and to help funders and policymakers advance medical-legal partnership activities. You can search those resources in the library below.
The library also links to journal articles, authored both by National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership staff and MLP practitioners and researchers from the field, that highlight ways medical-legal partnerships have improved patient health and well-being, the healthcare workforce, and healthcare delivery. A list of these articles with summaries are also available on the Peer-Reviewed Research page.
Ensuring People with Chronic Conditions Maintain Access to Care: A Patients-to-Policy Story
The fifth story in the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s patients-to-policy story series follows the MLP team at Whitman-Walker Health as they helped prevent platinum insurance plans that were widely used by patients with chronic conditions from being eliminated in the D.C. Marketplace. Through advocacy with the insurance commissioner and insurance companies, thousands of patients maintained access to care.
Increasing Nutritional Supports for Newborns: A Patients-to-Policy Story
The fourth story in the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s patients-to-policy story series follows the Cincinnati Children’s MLP team as they worked with the agency that administers food benefits in the county to eliminate administrative barriers to women enrolling newborns in benefits. New procedures allow hospital case managers to send birth records directly to the agency, and help families enroll newborns months earlier than before, which translates to real money for child nutrition.
Keeping Children Safe From Lead Poisoning: A Patients-to-Policy Story
The third story in the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s patients-to-policy story series follows the MLP at Erie Family Health Centers, which built a multi-state coalition that got the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to update its federal lead regulations. Now, they are working to pass a federal bill that will require lead inspections of all federally assisted housing units before families move in.
Eliminating Hurdles To Life Saving Medication: A Patients-to-Policy Story
The second story in the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s patients-to-policy story series follows the MLP team at Whitman-Walker Health as they worked with insurance companies to remove requirements forcing Post-Exposure Prophylaxis medications to be filled by mail. By doing so, they ensured people who were exposed to the HIV virus could get the medication they needed filled at a local pharmacy within the 72-hour window when the drug can be effective in preventing the transmission of HIV.
Helping Kids Get At-Home Care: A Patients-to-Policy Story
The first story in the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership’s patients-to-policy story series follows the team at Seattle Children Hospital’s MLP, which sued the state Medicaid Director and the Director of the Healthcare Authority to help these kids return home. They then turned their attention to legislative advocacy designed to fix the reimbursement rates for nurses.
Addressing Social Determinants Of Health Through Medical-Legal Partnerships
This article shares how more than 300 hospitals, health centers, and clinics across the U.S. are using legal services to treat issues–including housing, access to insurance, and stable guardianship–that drive health inequities. The authors drew on national survey findings and field research to identify multiple models for delivering medical-legal partnership services in clinical settings. While the models of delivery vary, the paper’s authors also identified eight core elements that define the intervention.