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.
An Analysis of Washington Medical-Legal Partnership’s Financial Benefit to Seattle Children’s Hospital
This white paper examines three years (FY 2015-2017) of financial benefit to Seattle Children’s Hospital and its patients as a result of medical-legal partnership services. It looks at the costs avoided and revenue collected for the healthcare institution and patients as a result of MLP interventions, acknowledging the complex collaboration of many other hospital advocates in patient care.
Tool: Medical-Legal Partnership Patient And Community Health Pre/Post Survey
The AHEAD Medical-Legal Partnership Patient and Community Health Pre/Post Survey provides a core set of questions that assess the impact of legal interventions on a patient’s perception of her health and the quality of services receives from an MLP. The survey is designed for broad applicability across different intervention models and describes specific administration instructions for the pre- and post- surveys in detail.
Tool: Medical-Legal Partnership Logic Model
The Medical-Legal Partnership Logic Model represents how MLP processes and activities will affect learners, patients, and the health system in the short, medium, and long term.
Tool: Medical-Legal Partnership Learner Pre/Post Survey
The Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) Medical-Legal Partnership Learner Pre/Post Survey includes a core set of questions used to examine the effect—on staff member knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs—of various types of education about social determinants of health and medical-legal partnerships. The survey design supports the evaluation of four Entrustable Professional Activities and six General Physician Competencies and applies across different educational intervention models or intensities, including learners in various health professions.
Clinician Perceptions of Medical-Legal Partnerships: Lessons for Adopting Social Determinants of Health Interventions in Health Care Settings
Based on interviews with 40 clinicians in healthcare settings that offer vulnerable patients access to civil legal services, this white paper examines clinicians’ perceptions related to their role and preferences when it comes to addressing social determinants of health. Using medical-legal partnership as one promising intervention, the paper illustrates the features of the model that clinicians perceive to be most attractive and beneficial for patient care. Among the paper’s findings, clinicians reported feeling that legal services resolved patient issues efficiently and effectively, and that the co-location / accessibility of in-house legal services was one of the most valued aspects of the model.
VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide
Drawing upon expertise, examples, and tools from the field, the VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide provides VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) with step-by-step guidance for starting and sustaining an MLP.