Speaking Together Toolkit

Published: 6/4/2008

Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations participated in RWJF's Speaking Together: National Language Services Network—a program aimed at improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).

This toolkit provides advice to hospitals on improving quality and accessibility of language services.

Speaking Together Toolkit

1 Speaking Together Performance Measures

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