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Resources
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National Coalition Aims at Certification for Health Care Interpreters (May '08)
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Study highlights language barriers faced in healthcare (LA Times, Mar. '08)
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Language Barriers at the Drugstore (Feb. '08)
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Breaking hospital language barriers. Interpreters help patients, doctors discuss health care. (Chicago Tribune, Oct. '07)
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Undocumented Immigrants' Childbirth Is Top Emergency Medicaid Expense (Healthday, March '07)
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Translators become lifelines at hospital (Dec '06)
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Language Is Big Concern At Hospitals: Columbus Facilities Working To Improve Interpreter Services (Columbus Dispatch, Oct. '06)
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Analysis: Hospitals Lack Language Plans (UPI, Oct. '06)
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Health care for many immigrants would be lost in translation if not for the emerging presence of medical interpreters (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Aug. '06)
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Speaking Their Language: Problems with Medical Translation (New America Media, Aug. '06)
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Demand surges for translators at medical facilities (USA Today, July '06)
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Language a Widening Barrier to Health Care (HealthDay, July '06)
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Language barriers plague hospitals (USA Today, July '06)
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Spanish interpreters in high demand at hospitals, clinics. Need for other languages in medical settings also growing. (CNN.com, July '06)
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Bridging the Language Gap. Some hospitals make non-English-speaking patients feel right at home. (U.S. News, July 2006)
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Doctoring Across the Language Divide (Health Affairs, May/June '06)
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Bush pitches Medicare plan to seniors of all languages (Apr. '06)
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Languages pose barrier to drug plan. Outreach efforts are under way to help patients grasp - and comply with - the new coverage under Medicare. (Apr. '06)
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California HMOs to lead nation in medical interpreters (Mar. '06)
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Interpreting more than symptoms. Bilingual Specialists Help Ensure Proper Care (Mar. '06)
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High-tech video language-interpretation service ready to roll (Jan. '06)
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Expert tapped to reduce hospital visits by county’s uninsured residents (Sept. '05)
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4th Circuit Affirms Dismissal of ProEnglish v. Bush (May '03)
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HHS Secretary Thompson Announces the Creation of a Bilingual Helpline (Mar. '03)
