Nurse-led medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) incorporate lawyers into the health care team to overcome barriers to patient health. When patients access more solutions to health problems, they have healthier lives, families, and communities.
Nurse-led health centers provide our nation’s most vulnerable populations with access to high-quality, affordable health care. NNCC recognizes health is impacted not only by bio-medical factors but also by the social and physical environments in which patients live. This is why NNCC’s network of nurse-managed health clinics are incorporating new ways to meet the needs of communities they serve.
NNCC also manages a local program based on MLPs, the Nursing-Legal Partnership.
As the only professional nursing organization involved in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) we were part of a collective of 10 professional associations charged to assist over 140,000 clinicians in improving how care is delivered by providing technical assistance support for integrating quality and process improvements, and by building on and spreading existing change methodologies, practice transformation tools, published literature, and technical assistance programs.
In collaboration with other SANs we developed a number of Power Packs to spread the transformational work undertaken by clinicians and practices nationally.
Each Power Pack presents a specific service delivery challenge and the steps taken by the spotlighted practice to address the challenge. Power Packs provide a set of change tactics and resources from the SANs and other professional associations that clinicians can use to address a similar challenge within their own practices.