LegalHealth’s Informational Town Hall on the End of The Eviction Moratorium

NYLAG submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Aging about the FY 26 preliminary budget.
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NYLAG’s Interim Director of our LegalHealth Unit, Julie Brandfield, submitted testimony about FY 26’s preliminary budget to the New York City Council’s Committee on Hospitals, specifically making the case for continued support for legal services in hospitals through the Immigrant Health Initiative (IHI): LegalHealth’s medical legal partnership model allows patients to receive direct referrals and […]
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Norma Tinubu, Interim Associate Director of NYLAG’s LegalHealth Unit, spoke with City Limits about what we’re seeing through our medical legal partnership throughout NYC.
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New York City Health + Hospitals announced the expansion of its medical-legal partnership with NYLAG’s LegalHealth division to address a variety of patients’ health-harming legal needs. Randy Retkin, LegalHealth Unit Director, shared with Norwood News the importance of this partnership in providing legal services in our public hospitals.
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Monica Tulchinsky, Senior Staff Attorney in the LegalHealth division of NYLAG, testified in favor of Introduction 0085-2024A, a bill to require the City to develop and issue an annual health survey of newly arrived immigrants and asylum seekers.
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