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Telephone Interpretation Services Can Serve Hospitals Well

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."

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 13, 2013 | 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.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network

National Program

This program, the first of its kind to integrate quality improvement techniques with hospital-based language services.

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos

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.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

National Program

Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.

Alcohol and Work

January 1, 1999 | Book

This chapter of the Anthology presents the findings from a Foundation-funded survey to explore alcohol use and performance problems in the workplace.

Language Barriers in Health Care

September 1, 2008 | Journal Article

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Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Ads Create Problems, Providers Say

August 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

From 2000 to 2001, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health examined how the growth of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs affects the patient-provider relationship.

Improving Patient Provider Communication for Latinos at Temple University Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine

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.

The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project

September 9, 2011 | Program Result Report

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.

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