phone: (646) 815-3245
email: leer31@nychhc.org
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In NYC Health + Hospitals’ patient population, unmet legal needs related to social determinants of health (e.g. residence in substandard housing, immigration status, and wrongful denial of government benefits) frequently impacts health. The medical-legal partnership (MLP) model is an innovative and unique health care delivery mechanism designed to embed civil legal services into the health care team in order to address legal needs tied to underlying and intersecting social determinants of health. NYC Health + Hospitals operates one of the oldest and largest medical legal partnerships in the country. New York City Health + Hospitals is investigating legal services providers to participate in its medical-legal partnership program.
