{"id":375,"date":"2021-07-09T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/our-work\/cancer-law-project\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:09:46","slug":"cancer-law-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/our-work\/delivering-health-justice\/cancer-law-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer LAW Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/07\/HJA-HORIZANTAL-COLOR-LOGOS-03-e1627485849781.jpg\" alt=\"Health Justice Cancer Law Project Logo\" width=\"488\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HJA&#8217;s Cancer Legal Assistance &amp; Well-being (LAW) Project addresses cancer patients&#8217; unmet legal needs that negatively affect their physical and mental health and interfere with or prevent effective pursuit of cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2019 with generous support from MedStar Health, MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Medical Center, the Cancer LAW Project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides legal services to patients in the areas of employment, housing, advance planning, debt, and health insurance.<\/li>\n<li>Trains healthcare teams to identify and refer patients with potential legal needs to the legal team.<\/li>\n<li>Provides opportunities for Georgetown law, medical, and undergraduate students to engage in the MLP model.<\/li>\n<li>Collects data and conducts research to evaluate its impact on patients, providers, and the health system and to contribute to the MLP evidence base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HJA&#8217;s Cancer Legal Assistance &amp; Well-being (LAW) Project addresses cancer patients&#8217; unmet legal needs that negatively affect their physical and mental health and interfere with or prevent effective pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":132,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/health-justice-alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}