To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

February 29th, 2016
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Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

November 9th, 2015
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Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

September 28th, 2015
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This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicit...

October 28th, 2014
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The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...

January 24th, 2014
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Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

October 22nd, 2013
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This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

August 20th, 2013
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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

July 8th, 2013
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This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

March 12th, 2013
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Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

March 12th, 2013
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Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

March 12th, 2013
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This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

March 12th, 2013
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Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

March 12th, 2013
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As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

March 12th, 2013
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San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

February 1st, 2012
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University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

February 1st, 2012
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Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

February 1st, 2012
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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

December 1st, 2011
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HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

October 31st, 2011
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Mercy Health Partners  and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...

January 25th, 2009
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