Health Justice Project’s Maywood MLP 2021-2024 Report
Health Justice Project’s Maywood MLP 2021-2024 Report
Highlighting the initiative’s impact on health equity
The Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy has released the Health Justice Project’s Maywood MLP First Three-Year Report highlighting the impact and successes of the project.
The Health Justice Project (HJP) is an interprofessional clinic utilizing the medical-legal partnership model (MLP) to provide legal care in a health care setting to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable patients. As part of the HJP, law, medical, and social work students collaborate with health care providers and lawyers to identify and resolve health-harming social and legal issues. In 2021, the HJP launched its Maywood MLP project in collaboration with Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.
The report highlights the accomplishments of the Maywood MLP’s first three years and demonstrates Loyola’s continued commitment to health justice and health equity.
“The Maywood MLP project has allowed the HJP to expand its services into Maywood, Illinois, and surrounding communities west of Chicago and form critical partnerships with the Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola Medicine,” says Kate Mitchell, director of the Health Justice Project. “Through these partnerships, the HJP has been able to utilize the Maywood MLP as a learning lab to engage law, social work, and medical students in critical interdisciplinary collaboration to serve vulnerable patients and clients through holistic legal and social care.”
The Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy has released the Health Justice Project’s Maywood MLP First Three-Year Report highlighting the impact and successes of the project.
The Health Justice Project (HJP) is an interprofessional clinic utilizing the medical-legal partnership model (MLP) to provide legal care in a health care setting to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable patients. As part of the HJP, law, medical, and social work students collaborate with health care providers and lawyers to identify and resolve health-harming social and legal issues. In 2021, the HJP launched its Maywood MLP project in collaboration with Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.
The report highlights the accomplishments of the Maywood MLP’s first three years and demonstrates Loyola’s continued commitment to health justice and health equity.
“The Maywood MLP project has allowed the HJP to expand its services into Maywood, Illinois, and surrounding communities west of Chicago and form critical partnerships with the Stritch School of Medicine and Loyola Medicine,” says Kate Mitchell, director of the Health Justice Project. “Through these partnerships, the HJP has been able to utilize the Maywood MLP as a learning lab to engage law, social work, and medical students in critical interdisciplinary collaboration to serve vulnerable patients and clients through holistic legal and social care.”