Lobbyist information

Amount

JoHanna Flacks-Dunning

$8,096.00

Employed Terminated Details about your lobbyist or lobbyist entity's efforts 01/01/2016 No identified legislation at this time. JoHanna Flacks is a staff member of the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, a fiscally sponsored project of Third Sector New England. Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston is an interdisciplinary team of health care staff, attorneys, and paralegals who integrate legal assistance into the medical setting as a vital component of patient care. By combining the strengths of law and medicine, MLP | Boston addresses the complex social determinants of patients’ health and ensures that low-income patients are able to meet their basic needs for food, housing and utilities, education and employment, health care, and personal and family stability and safety. Our legal team collaborates with healthcare providers in three key activities that promise to transform the delivery of health care and legal services and improve health for vulnerable individuals and families. Legal Assistance in the Healthcare Setting: MLP | Boston’s legal professionals become members of healthcare teams to assist patients with unmet legal needs, such as unhealthy housing conditions. Capacity-Building: MLP | Boston reorients health care and legal services to early detection and preventive care through training and education. Our teams improve institutional practices to address legal needs, such as establishing a hospital policy regarding the role of health care staff in connecting low-income patients with critical utility service protections. Policy Change: MLP | Boston leverages health and legal expertise to improve local, state, and federal laws and regulations that impact the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations.

Maryanne Frangules

$0.00

Employed Terminated Details about your lobbyist or lobbyist entity's efforts 01/01/2016 No identified legislation at this time. Maryanne Frangules is the director of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery, a fiscally sponsored project of Third Sector New England. The members of MOAR promote public awareness of alcoholism, drug dependency and substance abuse by: * Recruiting recovering persons, their family members and friends, to join MOAR. Helping them to speak out regarding the benefits of recovery, and the social costs of addiction in our communities and the workplace. * Celebrating "Recovery Day" at the State House every year by inviting recovering persons, policy makers, legislators, treatment providers, and others to meet together. We discuss our accomplishments, as well as the continued need for public education and awareness about addiction. * Offering community education about the need for Insurance Reimbursement for Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor I to protect the public, and acknowledge the SPECIAL SKILLS and methods needed to successfully intervene with persons suffering from addiction. * Educating insurers, HMOs and other third party payors regarding the need for equal access to an adequate treatment benefit. * Partnering with treatment providers to assure access and quality care for addicts and their families. * Educating health care providers and the public to reduce the stigma of addiction, while promoting the recognition of addictive disorders as a public health problem.

Samantha Jane Morton

$3,739.73

Employed Terminated Details about your lobbyist or lobbyist entity's efforts 01/01/2016 No identified legislation at this time. Samantha Morton is the director of the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, a fiscally sponsored project of Third Sector New England. Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston is an interdisciplinary team of health care staff, attorneys, and paralegals who integrate legal assistance into the medical setting as a vital component of patient care. By combining the strengths of law and medicine, MLP | Boston addresses the complex social determinants of patients’ health and ensures that low-income patients are able to meet their basic needs for food, housing and utilities, education and employment, health care, and personal and family stability and safety. Our legal team collaborates with healthcare providers in three key activities that promise to transform the delivery of health care and legal services and improve health for vulnerable individuals and families. Legal Assistance in the Healthcare Setting: MLP | Boston’s legal professionals become members of healthcare teams to assist patients with unmet legal needs, such as unhealthy housing conditions. Capacity-Building: MLP | Boston reorients health care and legal services to early detection and preventive care through training and education. Our teams improve institutional practices to address legal needs, such as establishing a hospital policy regarding the role of health care staff in connecting low-income patients with critical utility service protections. Policy Change: MLP | Boston leverages health and legal expertise to improve local, state, and federal laws and regulations that impact the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations.

Total salaries paid:      $11,835.73

Lobbyist Entity information

Amount

ADS Ventures, Inc.	$28,000.00
Employed Terminated 06/16/2016 08/31/2016

The Strategy Group, Inc.	$40,500.00
Employed Terminated 01/01/2016

Total salaries paid:      $68,500.00

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