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Health Care Professionals
The Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) is committed to providing information and resources on cancer-related legal issues to health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, psychosocial care providers, physicians assistants, patient navigators, patient advocates, and community health advocates.
A cancer diagnosis may carry with it a variety of legal issues, including insurance coverage, employment and taking time off work, access to health care and government benefits, and estate planning. These legal issues can cause people unnecessary worry, confusion, and stress, and can be overwhelming. When these legal issues are not addressed, people may find that although they have gotten through treatment, they have lost their homes, jobs, or insurance coverage.
While we recognize that it should not take legal resources to access health care, understanding insurance options, or preserve one’s job, it frequently does. When information is readily and easily accessible, we believe the quality of outcomes for patient survivorship improves and stress and anxiety decreases.
Ultimately, our goal is to train health care professionals to identify cancer-related legal issues and legal barriers to health care and provide health care professionals with resources to assist their patients navigate through cancer-related legal issues and provide appropriate referrals, which we believe will improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and caregivers.
The following CLRC resources are now available for health care professionals:
The HCP Manual: A Legal Resource Guide for Oncology Health Care Professionals (3rd Edition)
This 2012 HCP Manual is a resource for health care professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses, social workers, psychosocial care providers, and patient navigators) on the various questions and issues often relayed by patients coping with cancer, and provides valuable information about cancer-related legal issues, from diagnosis through survivorship. This Manual is part of a project funded by LIVESTRONG to educate health care professionals about cancer-related legal issues.
To download the manual, visit the educational materials page of our website by clicking here.
Spiral bound hard copies of The HCP Manual are available for $5, payable by check or credit card. To order a hard copy of The HCP Manual, click here to download the order form.
Event Request and Materials Order Form:
CLRC staff members also provide seminars and attend outreach events in the cancer community, across the nation, including trainings for health care professionals. Currently, we provide seminars and materials on a number of topics. We can also tailor our seminars for a particular audience. Seminars are available in English and Spanish; however, we can work with community partners to provide the trainings in other languages.
For more information, please view our Event Request and Materials Order Form.
For additional questions, please email CLRC@lls.edu or call 213-252-1100.
Upcoming Events:
The CLRC attends over 200 seminars, conferences and community events nationally, each year.
To see where the CLRC will be next, please visit our Events page here.