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1. Celebrating Our Collaboration: Building for the Future Erie Family Health Center October 3, 2012
2. The Health Justice Project Collaborating with Clinicians Reducing Health Disparities Identifying social determinants of health and applying legal and public policy interventions.
3. Partnership Logistics
4. Patient Referrals: 2010-2012 924patients referred Over 1200 legal issues addressed 56 Erie Providers 6 Erie sites 84%favorable outcome
5. Success in Dollars Financial Benefits to Clients $593,684 in Forgiveness of Medical Expenses $46,006 in Restoration of Public Benefits (excluding Medicaid) $4,230 in Reduced Housing Expenses $1,878 in Other Gains Financial Benefits to Health Care Institutions $547,235 in Medicaid Reimbursement
6. Achieving Success Together Providers often support attorneys by contributing medical source statements to Social Security Administration appeals and housing condition cases. Law students, social work students and medical partners worked together to present policy proposals to the Chicago Board of Education and federal legislators. Providers and law students supported the National Center’s Health Impact Assessment of ComEd’sSmartGrid program. Providers and law students submitted editorial letters on several issues relevant to health, including food deserts, homelessness, and the effect of utility shut off. Attorneys, law students, public health experts and social workers collaborated with the New York Times to highlight an Erie Family Health Center patient in a series about homelessness, which resulted in permanent housing for the family. Attorneys and law students presented to medical residents and Grand Rounds on the topics of housing conditions, therapeutic diet allowance, rights of pregnant and parenting teens, medical legal partnerships, and “know your rights” for patients. Law students, social work students, and residents developed a policy strategy on behalf of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
7. Partnering to Meet Patient Needs Health Services Erie Family Health Center Northwestern Family Medical Residency Loyola School of Public Health Social Services DePaul School of Social Work Loyola School of Social Work Interpretation Services Triton College Legal Services Loyola Law School ABA Medical-Legal Partnership Pro Bono Project AIDS Legal Council of Chicago Equip for Equality Heartland Alliance Lawyers Committee for Better Housing Legal Assistance Foundation Pro Bono Attorneys
8. Erie Health Justice Champions Carlos Nunez David Buchanan Anuj Shah Deborah Edberg Elisa Rivero Sandra Torres Stephanie Place John Franco Gail Patrick Santina Wheat Peter Mayock Catherine Stewart Jeffrey Panzer Natalie Raghu Sara Naureckas Dorothy Dschida Ann McCormick Helen Box Laura Schwab Sheila Fleming Pat Maier Julie Osborne Deborah Sontag Lee Francis Beth Dunlap AdianezAlbelo Loretta Mohr Joseen Bryan NiveditaMohanty Frank Castillo Heidi Vyhmeister NandiniDatta Daniel Mendoza Sylvia Ukonga Jill Hawkes Alyssa Mull Shannon Staley Ruben Frescas Anna Pazurek Margaret Cushing Deborah Midgley Marcia Salas AlissaCattis Nicole Yanez SoleakSim Rebecca Levine Martha Glynn Angkana Roy Cynthia Neal Elizabeth Hawkes Emma Daisy Laura Zimmermann NehaSachdev Benjamin Preyss Almuden Ruiz