A growing number of hospital systems are embedding lawyers in inter-professional health teams to address a patient’s social, financial and environmental problems that require legal assistance to remedy. Lawyers and caregivers in these teams facilitate expanded access to healthcare benefits and services.
The Margolin Group supports similar innovative work through The Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, which links law and medicine to break down psychosocial, financial, and societal barriers to care and to improve healthcare quality outcomes.