“Four Massachusetts immigrant and health care advocacy groups urged communities on Sept. 25 to take actions on the proposed federal public charge policy that would penalize immigrants if they are receiving government benefits…”
“MHAP for Kids is a lifeline that minimizes children’s exposure to the juvenile justice system and removes obstacles to the treatment and care they need to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.”
Joined together as part of the national Protecting Immigrant Families campaign, the groups MLRI, MIRA, Health Care for All and Health Law Advocates said they would fight against the change and work to raise awareness of it.
“The duty to share this information with their client’s physician will help ensure that medical professionals communicate effectively with one another, without leaving patients to fall through the cracks,” said Wells G. Wilkinson.
Mala Rafik, HLA Board President and Partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, P.C., honored with the Dr. Jim O’Connell Award at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s Medicine That Matters Gala on May 21, 2018.
In recognition of Children’s Mental Health Week: May 6-12, 2018
“It’s important we continue to remind people that here in Massachusetts we still have an individual mandate, and there’s still time to get insured.” -Amy Rosenfeld, Executive Director at Health Care for All & HLA board member in The Boston Globe.
Proud to partner with The Boston Foundation to ensure the LGBTQ community has equitable access to health care!
HLA’s Litigation Director and a member of HLA’s Board of Directors contributed to the Spring issue of “The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics”
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