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Interdisciplinary Medical-Legal Partnership Takes Holistic Approach to Wellness


Posted August 15, 2018
3:05 pm


An innovator in compassionate care, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center partnered with The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in October 2017 to create the nation’s first medical-legal partnership (MLP) focused on a Psychiatric Emergency Department.

Through this partnership, Legal Aid attorneys Michael Russell and Jennifer Kinsley are onsite at St. Vincent Charity to advise and represent patients and to train providers in spotting social determinants of health with potential legal remedies.

Click here to read the full St. Vincent Charity Medical Center blog post. 

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