We're Sick of Not Being Heard: Health Care Equality Advocates Expose Language Barriers
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Uploaded by AppliedResearchCente on Apr 8, 2009
As these interactions with hospitals across America illustrate, hospitals across America that are legally required to have language access programs in place for non-English speakers are falling short on their legal duty. Meanwhile, people in need of help are suffering.
Hospitals that do not provide adequate interpretation services are breaking the law. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits hospitals that receive federal funding (such as Medicaid and Medicare) from discriminating against anyone based on race, color or country of national origin, and Supreme Court decisions have clarified that recipients of federal funding must provide language access.
For more information, check out Northwest Federation of Community Organizations ( http://nwfco.org/ ), and SEIU's Healthcare Equality Project ( http://healthcareequalityproject.org/ ).
As posted to RaceWire: http://www.racewire.org
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