LanguageMate To Unveil Private Tutor Medical Spanish at the Association for American Medical Colleges

Mount Sinai breaks the language barrier
Crain's New York
Mount Sinai is one of two medical schools testing a language program that could revolutionize how medical Spanish is taught to students...
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20091214/PULSE/912119984

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
NYTimes
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/study-finds-that-online-education-b

Are Patients in Part to Blame When Doctors Miss the Diagnosis?
NYTimes
Marla (not her real name) came to our clinic with breast cancer. The clinic nurse stopped me before...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/health/07chen.html?_r=1&ref=health

Bridging the Culture Gap
NYTimes
One afternoon not long after I finished my training, two sisters, both well-respected professionals...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/health/16chen.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Patient Communication
Salt Lake Tribune
In the midst of partisan rancor in Washington and the debate about ways to control health care costs...
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12735577

Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States
New England Journal of Medicine
A 12-year-old Latino boy arrived at a Boston emergency department with dizziness and a headache...
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/3/229

Links

Language Access Regulations and Resources on the Federal Level

The following is a list of standards for providing culturally and linguistic appropriate health care services produced by the Office of Minority Health. Some of the items in the list are federally mandated, others (identified in the document), are optional recommendations.
http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=15

The Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide, a guide produced by the OMH and the DHHS to help hospitals through the process of implementing language access services.
https://hclsig.thinkculturalhealth.org/user/home.rails (online interactive version)
http://www.omhrc.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/HC-LSIG.pdf (PDF)

Summary of the guidance statement released in 2000, covering the key points of the policy, how health care providers can follow them, and what assistance the Department of Health and Human Services can offer.
Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI and the Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons -Summary

The Healthcare Equality and Accountability Access Act of 2003, a legislative bill that amended the Public Service Health Act to improve limited English speakers' access to health care and established the Center for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Healthcare. It also provides for certain grant opportunities hospitals can take advantage of to pro-actively improve their language access.
The Healthcare Equality and Accountability Access Act of 2003

State Regulations

In this guide you can find an overview of all state legislation regulating language access in the health care field, broken up by individual state.
Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care (March '08)

Other Government Links

http://www.census.gov/
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/cor/coord/titlevi.php
http://www.lep.gov/

Video

Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare

Translating Health Care