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July 30, 2011 | Program Result Report
A 12-week health literacy course in Lincoln, Neb., sought to teach immigrants the basic medical information and vocabulary necessary to lead healthier lives.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
May 13, 2011 | Program Result Report
Project staff worked with a design team to create and test a set of universal graphic symbols to help people with limited proficiency in English find their way around health care facilities.
April 6, 2011 | Program Result Report
"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."
April 6, 2011 | Program Result Report
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Inova, a not-for-profit health care system based in northern Virginia that includes hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers and other health-related organizations, established the role of the patient navigator to meet their needs.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Through Hablamos Juntos, Molina saw an opportunity to pilot "TeleSalud," an in-house telephone contact center where Spanish-speaking members could access health care advice 24 hours a day.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
The participating hospitals were connected to a videoconferencing system through a new statewide communications network known as the Nebraska Statewide Telehealth Network.
January 23, 2009 | Program Result Report
Radio Bilingue produced a body of health programming and developed a strategic plan for creating a health desk to expand its health focus.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Institute of Medicine conducted a study on health literacy, defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.