Designing and Developing a Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Cancer Patients' Health-Harming Legal Needs

The Georgetown University's Cancer Legal Assistance and Well-being Project launched in 2020 as a medical-legal partnership that works with health care providers at a Washington, D.C. safety-net hospital to treat the health-harming legal needs of historically and intentionally marginalized patie...

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Published in:Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2024-05, Vol.35 (2), p.753-761
Main Authors: Dowling, Allison B, Girard, Vicki W, Gordon, Megan E, Sweeney, Abigail, Gallagher, Christopher M, Ly, Amy D, Kessler, Lisa P, Perry, Deborah F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
Cancer
College students
Cooperative Behavior
Disability
District of Columbia
Employment
Health care
Health care industry
Health disparities
Health services
Hospitals
Humans
Intervention
Law
Legal advocacy
Marginality
Medical personnel
Mortality
Needs analysis
Neoplasms - therapy
Nursing
Pandemics
Partnerships
Patients
Planning
Safety-net Providers - organization & administration
Social workers
Teams
Well being
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Summary:The Georgetown University's Cancer Legal Assistance and Well-being Project launched in 2020 as a medical-legal partnership that works with health care providers at a Washington, D.C. safety-net hospital to treat the health-harming legal needs of historically and intentionally marginalized patients with cancer.
ISSN:1049-2089
1548-6869
1548-6869
DOI:10.1353/hpu.2024.a928645