LegalHealth’s Informational Town Hall on the Changes to Medicaid-Funded Home Care

NYLAG’s LegalHealth Division is partnering with the Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership to launch a clinic to help breast cancer patients navigate legal issues that arise due to their diagnoses.
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“Follow your heart and instincts,” says NYLAG’s Yoko Kobayashi in this article in the Iroha. As a staff attorney in our LegalHealth Unit, Yoko works with patients directly in healthcare

Lucia Lee Mount Sinai Health System The Mount Sinai Health System announced today data from an innovative medical-legal pilot program that proactively identifies and provides free, civil legal services to

“Legal issues should never stand in the way of health.” Developed in collaboration with NYLAG, Mount Sinai launched a medical-legal program to proactively identify and provide free civil legal services to patients in underserved communities who have unaddressed legal needs, to improve their health outcomes.
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We sat down with Lisa Rivera, NYLAG’s new president and CEO, to learn about her passion for amplifying client voices and why she believes legal advocates should be guided by activism.
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