Delaware Medical-Legal Partnership

ChristianaCare’s Delaware Medical-Legal partnership (DMLP) in partnership with Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., advocates on behalf of economically disadvantaged adults and children and offers free, onsite civil legal services to patients who meet certain income and health care eligibility criteria.

The DMLP integrates poverty lawyers into the health care team to help address social determinants of health, legal matters or needs that have an impact on the patient’s health.

DMLP legal assistance can help eligible patients and their families with a variety of challenges, including: