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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
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."
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, 2009 | Report
This report presents accounts from a qualitative study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that examined the personal experiences and financial impact of the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act (Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006) among low-income Latinos.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Center for Public Service Communications held two meetings to discuss ways to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate health care information among refugee and immigrant communities.
October 15, 2007 | Program Result
From 2002 to 2006, the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, known as the MED, in Memphis, Tenn., improved and expanded language services for Spanish-speaking patients throughout the organization.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The report profiles a program at Temple University that aimed to increase the availability of highly trained medical translators. Temple University was one of 10 sites across the country awarded grants under the RWJF initiative Hablamos Juntos.