Resource Details

Brief: Leveraging legal services on the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT)

Year Developed: 2020

Resource Type: Publication.

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

Language(s): English

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

Resource Summary: This brief highlights the potential for partnership between the legal community and H-PACTs at VAMCs, and profiles MLPs that are successfully tackling the unmet legal needs of Veterans experiencing and at-risk of homelessness through this approach

Resource Details: The Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT) is a medical home treatment model being implemented at over 50 VA medical centers (VAMCs) nationwide. The goal of the H-PACT model is to provide the collaborative care necessary to tackle the physical, mental, and social determinants of health which can lead to homelessness. Currently, one-quarter (25.9 percent) of VA health care systems that have an H-PACT, also have an on-site VA medical-legal partnership. This brief highlights the potential for partnership between the legal community and H-PACTs at VAMCs, and profiles MLPs that are successfully tackling the unmet legal needs of Veterans experiencing and at-risk of homelessness through this approach.

Resource Topic: Clinical Issues, Emerging Issues, Operations, Quality, , Special and Vulnerable Populations

Resource Subtopic: Behavioral Health, Community, Health, and Housing Partnerships, Policy and Advocacy, Enabling Services (ES), Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Quality Improvement.

Keywords: Access to Care, Housing, Legal Issues, Medical Home, Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs), Non-Clinical Services, Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Veterans.