Talk about comprehensive care: You may be able to speak with a lawyer when you visit a health clinic.
Health systems are increasingly connecting patients with off-site social and legal services to address nonmedical factors that affect health, including housing, transportation and access to care. Now advocates for medical-legal partnerships say stationing attorneys directly in clinics and hospitals can both help individual patients and challenge systems that make it harder for some to be healthy in the first place.
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