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September 9, 2011 | Program Result
The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.
October 29, 2009 | Program Result
RWJF funded two meetings convened by the Center for Public Service Communications (CPSC), which led to the creation of the Refugee Health Information Network.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
April 6, 2011 | Program Result
"We would never have gotten this information if the doctor had just gone in with broken Spanish," said Beth Ebel, M.D. "Often you don't know what you're getting into with medicine. If you don't know the nuances of the situation it can be a problem."
National Program
This program, the first of its kind to integrate quality improvement techniques with hospital-based language services.
National Program
To improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.
January 1, 2010 | Book
In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, a free-lance journalist and former investigative reporter looks at Hablamos Juntos, examining its conceptual bases, observing the program in action, and offering some thoughts—based in part on the evaluation of the program—on the challenges to language-access programs and possible ways of overcoming them.
November 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article focused on the relationship between limited English proficiency among the patient population and physician services. The study sample was 67 individuals, 45 physicians and 22 office managers, who participated in a total of nine computer-assisted telephone focus groups.
February 20, 2008 | Program Result
Four competing nonprofit hospitals in upstate South Carolina realized they were facing common challenges.
May 9, 2008 | Program Result
A research team examined the medical literature in order to summarize what was known about language barriers in health care, and outline gaps in published and ongoing research.