Grants

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos

The Foundation's program, Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos, was designed to help improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.The purpose of this project is to design and implement a cost-effective language services intervention to help area medical facilities effectively communicate with their limited-English-proficiency patients.

Grant Details

Amount Awarded $850,000.00

Awarded on: 10/3/2003

Time frame: 10/1/2003 - 12/31/2005

Grant Number: 48225

Grantee

En Espanol

3605 Lorna Ridge Drive, Suite 100
Hoover, AL, 35216-5254

205-822-3848

Jose Antonio Valencia
Project Director

205-824-2345
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