Providing quality healthcare during a pandemic means providing timely, accurate communication to patients. Caring for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients can sometimes involve extra layers of complexity, as a result of language barriers. By providing your healthcare content and pertinent medical documents in the languages that your patients speak, you can improve patient outcomes.1 And,…
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Multilingual Communication During a Pandemic: Tips for Healthcare Providers
Multilingual Communication During a Pandemic Tips for Healthcare ProvidersMultilingual communication in the healthcare setting can bridge the language divide during a pandemic. Whenever a crisis arises, healthcare providers must be prepared for the challenges of communicating in multiple languages. By addressing the needs of limited English proficiency (LEP) patients, healthcare providers can mitigate risk, improve…
Language Interpreting and Cross-Cultural Communications in a Medical Setting
Healthcare providers have multiple challenges when working with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients. These patients come from a variety of cultural, socio-economic, and educational backgrounds. Consequently, breaking down cultural and language barriers with LEP patients requires additional effort in order to set the right expectations and provide adequate healthcare.Title VI of the Civil Rights Act…
Top Five Reasons Why You Must Translate Your Healthcare Website with a Language Service Company
Need to translate your healthcare website? There are several advantages to hiring a language service company (LSC) to translate your healthcare website into the languages that your patients speak. These include: increased productivity with medical staff, new patient acquisition, improving patient outcomes and an improved patient experience. A language service company typically offers some combination…
