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December 16, 2024

HHC, UConn School of Law partner to open health equity clinic

HBJ FILE PHOTO Hartford Hospital, Hartford HealthCare’s flagship hospital.

Taking on the cause of equitable access to health care, the University of Connecticut School of Law and Hartford HealthCare (HHC) have announced a partnership to establish a Health Equity Clinic.

When it opens next month, the clinic will be the only adult-based medical-legal partnership in central Connecticut, offering joint medical-legal advocacy and interventions, the organizations said.

The new clinic will join a group of academic, law school-based medical-legal partnerships across the country that combine the academic expertise of law school faculty with clinical experience and medical providers who regularly work with at-risk patient populations.

The Health Equity Clinic will operate in a partnership with Hartford Hospital, HHC’s flagship acute-care facility.

Working with the clinic, UConn law students will learn about the complex intersection of poverty, health and law; the concept of health equity and its impact on health outcomes; how the law may be used to improve health; and how healthcare providers and lawyers can work together to create innovative and measurable interventions and remedies for patients and clients, the organizations said. 

Law students will both work individually or in teams with medical staff in the hospital’s primary care clinics to see patients and conduct intakes and interviews.

UConn Law Dean Eboni S. Nelson said the clinic will “advance and expand our commitment to community service, providing invaluable legal services to an underserved population.”

The clinic’s director will be Jay Sicklick, a visiting assistant clinical professor of law at UConn Law. Sicklick, formerly the deputy director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy, spent 24 years as the founder and director of a pediatric-based medical-legal partnership in Hartford and New Haven. He is also a consultant at the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

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