Bringing Lawyers onto the Health Center Care Team to Promote Patient & Community Health
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Description
Discusses the role of health center medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) to address social determinants of health. Offers information and tools for health centers, primary care associations, and other organizations to start, strengthen, and sustain an MLP. Describes how to develop screening, referral,
and service delivery workflows; how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development; and types of projects MLPs can engage in to help health centers address social determinants of health and health equity at a policy level.
Author(s)
Kate Marple. Mallory Curran, Ellen Lawton, Danielle Rahajason
Date
10/2020
Type
Document
Organization
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
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Access · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Policy · Service delivery models · Social determinants of health