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.
Designing and Developing a Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Cancer Patients' Health-Harming Legal Needs
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.
8 Tips for Effective MLP Trainings for Healthcare Team Members
This resource outlines best practices for training front-line care healthcare staff on medical-legal partnership topics. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
Do’s & Don’ts of MLP Curbside Consults
This job aid can help front-line healthcare staff understand the “do’s and don’ts” of medical-legal partnership Curbside Consults with legal services providers, including what types of questions can be asked and what type of patient information can be shared. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
Getting Patient Consent for MLP Legal Services
This sample job aid can help front-line healthcare staff understand what type of consent they need to obtain in different legal services and medical-legal partnership situations and where to document it. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
A Patient’s MLP Legal Journey
This training and job aid help healthcare staff understand what happens after they refer a patient to a medical-legal partnership legal team. It shares the steps a legal team takes when working with a patient. It includes the types of legal interventions a lawyer might provide and how long it can take to resolve an issue. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.
10 Ways Physicians Can Champion MLP Services for Patients
For physicians who want to ensure patients have access to medical-legal partnership services at their healthcare site, this job aid offers 10 ways they can help establish, grow, and sustain medical-legal partnership activities. This job aid can be adapted to work with other types of clinical leaders. It was created as part of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative.