Helping Kids Get At-Home Care
WA MLP Featured in New Story Series – In 2015, the Washington MLP legal team turned their attention to advocacy designed to fix the reimbursement rates for nurses who provide at-home care for children with Medicaid. This successful policy work was April’s feature in Part 1 of the National Center for MLP’s new patients-to-policy story series.
All policy work our MLP engages in is partially about solving a clinic problem identified by providers, in this case a serious and expensive discharge problem. But it was ultimately about giving kids a shot at their best life, and putting families back together. Every parent can understand the need to get their kid home.
MLP Spotlight: Caitlin Forsyth, Pro Bono Attorney
Caitlin is one of MLP’s exemplary volunteer attorneys with the guardianship panel. Caitlin shares her experience with a MLP guardianship client and the reasons why she enjoys giving her time and expertise to the partnership.
I enjoy working on guardianship cases with MLP because they get me out of my comfort zone and expose me to experiences I would not otherwise have. [I] get the chance to work with a client where the work I do will meaningfully impact their life on a personal level.
Click here to read more about Caitlin’s pro bono work.
Sharing Insights: MLP Capacity Building in Florida
In March 2018, Washington MLP collaborated with Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida for a one-day symposium with the goal to catalyze MLP activity in Florida. MLP Co-Director Annette Quayle discussed with legal aid leaders her insights to engaging healthcare organizations in medical-legal partnerships. With MLPs in other states such as Florida, Iowa, and Virginia, Washington MLP collaborates across the nation for synergistic learning and capacity building.
New Research Published on MLP
Health Affairs recently published an article about the more than 300 hospitals, health centers, and clinics across the US that are using legal services to address patient’s unmet social needs. “What this research illustrates is that medical-legal partnership is a flexible intervention, and that health care is figuring out a variety of different ways to leverage it to best serve the needs of different patient populations.” – Martha Regenstein, PhD, Director of Research for National Center for MLP. Read the article.
Our Partners
MLP improves the health and well-being of vulnerable populations by identifying and addressing health-harming legal needs and removing barriers to better health. MLP is a collaboration between our legal partner, Northwest Justice Project (NJP), and the following medical and behavioral health providers:
Read about WA MLP’s history and accomplishments in the MLP Report.