Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships

Makhlouf, Medha D.

doi:10.1017/jme.2022.16

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“…57 Medical-legal partnerships can also serve a role in patient support and addressing racial equity. 58 For example, Roswell Park Cancer Institute founded a medical-legal partnership, called the Legal Services Program, under a local legal services agency. 59 Initially directed toward patients at the end of life and then broadened to all patients with recurrent cancer, this program was staffed by a social worker and an attorney.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Intervention-Based Approach to Achieve Racial Equity in Gynecologic Oncology

Gamble,

Woodard,

Yakubu

et al. 2023

Obstetrics &Amp; Gynecology

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Racial inequities within gynecologic oncology exist at every step of the cancer continuum. Although the disparities have been well described, there is a significant gap in the literature focused on eliminating inequities in gynecologic cancer outcomes. The goal of this narrative review is to highlight successful, evidence-based interventions from within and outside of gynecologic oncology that alleviate disparity, providing a call to action for further research and implementation efforts within the field. These solutions are organized in the socioecologic framework, where multiple levels of influence—societal, community, organizational, interpersonal, and individual—affect health outcomes.

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Section: Patient Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Intervention-Based Approach to Achieve Racial Equity in Gynecologic Oncology

Gamble,

Woodard,

Yakubu

et al. 2023

Obstetrics &Amp; Gynecology

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“…12,13 They are also a potentially helpful tool to combat racism in health care. 14 Although evidence of a few medical-legal partnerships targeting the perinatal period exist, 15 interest in their use to improve maternal health is increasing. [16][17][18] At Georgetown University, the Perinatal LAW project (Perinatal Legal Assistance & Wellbeing) 19 is part of the Health Justice Alliance, an academic medical-legal partnership with service, education, and research components.…”

Section: Using Medical-legal Partnerships To Fill Perinatal Care Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Lawyers Into Perinatal Care Teams to Address Unmet, Health-Harming Legal Needs

Patchen,

Richardson,

McCullers

et al. 2023

Obstetrics &Amp; Gynecology

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Across the United States, historically imposed structural, social, and environmental variables are intimately connected to poor obstetric outcomes and high maternal and infant mortality rates among Black pregnancy-capable people. Efforts to diminish the effect of these variables include integrating screening for social determinants of health during the perinatal period and treating them with social services, mental health support, and other referrals, including connections to community-based resources. Although helpful, some of these social determinants cannot be overcome without legal advocacy. Medical–legal partnerships, which integrate lawyers into health care, fill this gap. This commentary by an interprofessional team of authors relies on the experience of an established MLP. We posit that unmet legal needs of perinatal patients merit ongoing monitoring and intervention. We explain the rationale for perinatal practice medical–legal partnerships and share implementation suggestions from a high-intensity safety-net urban hospital.

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“…17 Hospitalization can serve as an entry point to the health care delivery system for patients with legal needs who might not otherwise have sought legal services in the community, and legal partners add value to the care patients receive. 18 When a health care clinician identifies a patient who may be at risk for a prolonged hospitalization due to lack of in-home care support or financial resources, legal partners can assist with upstream factors, including advance medical and financial planning, to prevent unnecessary utilization of health care resources and increase patient satisfaction. 19 Robust MLPs can coordinate anticipatory interventions at seminal moments, such as at the time of a new dementia diagnosis, to prevent the need for acute legal intervention such as guardianship.…”

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Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

Garg,

Oliva,

et al. 2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Health systems are integrating medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) into clinical care and increasingly center “complex care” patients. These patients have intersecting medical and social needs and often face systemic inequities that exacerbate their chronic health conditions. This paper describes a role for MLPs in hospital quality initiatives; examines the ethics of MLPs assisting with guardianship and institutionalization of hospital patients including marginalized groups; and advocates for MLP interventions designed to address intersectional and ethical concerns.

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Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

An Intervention-Based Approach to Achieve Racial Equity in Gynecologic Oncology

An Intervention-Based Approach to Achieve Racial Equity in Gynecologic Oncology

Integrating Lawyers Into Perinatal Care Teams to Address Unmet, Health-Harming Legal Needs

Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

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