Lawmakers want every chain pharmacy in New York State to translate prescription labels, extending a 2009 city law after research found most pharmacists rarely translate at all.
Posts with tag.: medical interpreter
New Joint Commission standards force hospitals to provide interpreting, turning a chronically under-supplied role into one of the fastest growing jobs in American healthcare.
Oregon endorses the national CMI credential and funds oral exams in five more languages, giving hospitals a single standard for judging whether an interpreter is competent.
Washington's proposed 2 million dollar cut would end Medicaid interpreter subsidies for 70,000 residents, shifting risk and cost onto clinics and patients.
Interpreters and translators made the 50 Best Careers list on real demand. What changed since is which half of the market pays, and it is the half that requires a specialism.
Long Beach cut the Spanish simulcast of council meetings, then told housing advocates the promised interpreters were not available either.
How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.
Interpreters-on-Call sells vendor-neutral telephony by the minute, removing the one barrier that kept small agencies out of over the phone interpretation.
Emergency patients given a professional interpreter were four times as likely to report satisfaction, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine study points to safety gains too.