News

Language in Healthcare—News of Interest:

Web: Language access services not commonly offered by Medicare providers (7/16/2010) "Only one-third of Medicare providers offered services that met all four of the Office of Minority Health's (OMH) Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (CLAS) standards..."

Web: Expatriate Healthcare: Expat Medical Insurance News: Language barrier remains a problem in Korea (6/14/2010)

Web: Newsweek: The Language of Care - When the fine print is unintelligible even for native English speakers, what hope is there for Latino immigrants? (6/9/2010)

Web: Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog: Language Barriers Create Medical Errors (5/26/2010)

Web: LA Times: In Riverside, Parkview Community Hospital fined for language error (5/21/2010)

Video: Improving Patient-Provider Communication: Joint Commission Standards and Federal Laws - Part 1 (11/17/09)

Video: Improving Patient-Provider Communication: Joint Commission Standards and Federal Laws - Part 2 (11/17/09)

Video: Improving Patient-Provider Communication: Joint Commission Standards and Federal Laws - Part 3 (11/17/09)

Video: Improving Patient-Provider Communication: Joint Commission Standards and Federal Laws - Part 4 (11/17/09)

PDF: Recommendation Report from the HHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health (ACMH) (10/2009)

PDF: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States (9/17/2009)

Web: Washington Post: Speaking the Same Language: Medical Providers Struggle to Communicate With Immigrant Patients (4/21/2009)

Web: LA Times: Scope of language barriers stressed - Limited English skills can impede access to healthcare and services in L.A. County, study says (3/21/2008)

General Language News:

Web: BP Fails to Cap the Language Leak (7/19/2010) The US Dept. of Labor and other agencies have complained that "...BP was not providing limited English proficient workers with proper training in their native languages to help them understand how to properly handle contaminants" and that there a "...notable lack of bilingual staff and interpreters who can communicate with the area’s diverse population."

Web: Poll: Language a barrier for Latinos in schools (8/6/2010)

Web: New Platform Makes Telephone Interpreting Possible for Every LSP (8/12/2010)