COLLABORATION: MLP | BOSTON AND HONORING CHOICES MASSACHUSETTS

Honoring Choices enthusiastically welcomes Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston as a Collaborating Member, working towards our shared mission of improving quality care for all Massachusetts residents.

“Honoring Choices exemplifies the kind of proactive, patient-centered support that people deserve,” says Samantha Morton, JD, Executive Director of Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, adding that “As a program dedicated to detecting, diagnosing and addressing legal problems impacting health and access to health care, we are thrilled to be operating in a landscape that now includes this innovative, preventive approach to health care planning.”

“We applaud the Honoring Choices commitment to aligning legal and healthcare stakeholders in ways that allow for the patient’s perspective to prevail,” says Ms. Morton.

Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston has a strong track-record of improving the health and well-being of vulnerable populations by supporting the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of social needs with legal solutions. Through integration of legal care into healthcare delivery and public health strategies, MLP | Boston successfully addresses a range of social determinants of health that have legal remedies. This work promotes the health and well-being of low-income, medically vulnerable patients by ensuring their access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing, food and nutritional supports, disability benefits, employment stability, and much more.

MLP | Boston’s commitment to foster high-quality, working partnerships between the medical and legal community is exemplary and imperative in light of our changing health care system.  On Monday, October 28, 2013, they will host the 4th Annual Massachusetts MLP Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, themed “Medical-Legal Partnership: A Key Component of Accountable Care.” More details about the conference can be found at www.mlpboston.org.