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Using Health Center Needs Assessments To Address Legal Needs

Year Developed: 2016

Resource Type: Publication.

Primary Audience: Clinicians, Enabling Staff
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff Board of Directors C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, COOs, CMOs, etc)

Language(s): English

Developed by: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: This fact sheet outlines how health centers can use community needs assessments to understand and meet their patients’ health-harming civil legal needs.

Resource Details: Since civil legal aid is now considered an enabling health service, assessing and addressing patients’ civil legal needs can be part of a broader strategy to depict and meet the health needs of health center patients.

Resource Topic: Quality,

Resource Subtopic: Enabling Services (ES), Patient-Centered Health Outcomes, Development and Training, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Quality Improvement.

Keywords: Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs).

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.