A Patient-Centered Guide To Implementing Language Access Services In Healthcare Organizations
Author: Alvarado-Little, W.
Date Published: 2004
With growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health and health care and the need for healthcare systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patient populations, language access services (LAS) have become more and more a matter of national importance.1 A Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations was developed for the Office of Minority Health (OMH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). OMH sponsored the development of the guide to help healthcare organizations implement effective LAS to meet the needs of their limited English proficient (LEP) patients, thereby increasing their access to health care.
Date Published: 2004
With growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health and health care and the need for healthcare systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patient populations, language access services (LAS) have become more and more a matter of national importance.1 A Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations was developed for the Office of Minority Health (OMH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). OMH sponsored the development of the guide to help healthcare organizations implement effective LAS to meet the needs of their limited English proficient (LEP) patients, thereby increasing their access to health care.
