Office for Civil Rights Decision Docket (posted March '06)

This annotated docket summarizes OCR decisions that concern the provision of language services in federally-funded health care settings. Some of the documents are the result of compliance reviews initiated by an OCR regional office, while others respond to complaints filed by persons alleging that language barriers have delayed or prevented adequate care. The responses are most frequently provided as letters to the federal fund recipient; however, as the docket below reflects, formal compliance agreements are sometimes issued.