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Medical-Legal Partnership Screening Guide

National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships

The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, with pro bono support from The Advisory Board Company, reviewed 80 tools used by medical-legal partnerships across the country to screen for patients’ legal need and then developed a common screening tool that can be used by hospitals and health centers in a range of settings.

This tool is available for free download on their website

The download includes:

  • A customizable screening guide template and patient authorization tools;
  • A pick list of questions about specific health-harming legal issues and populations so that each medical-legal partnership can select questions related to the specific issues it addresses;
  • An evaluation form to help staff who administer the screener measure its success.

The goal of these resources is to allow every medical-legal partnership to customize a legal needs screening tool that is specific to its setting and the population it serves.

New MLP legal needs screening tool available for download. National Center for Medical Legal Partnership website. https://medical-legalpartnership.org/screening-tool/. Updated November 2015.

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