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Momentum Builds In Sacramento For #Medical #Interpretation –courtesy of KPBS
East African refugees in City Heights are fighting for better face-to-face medical interpretation. They say current phone-based interpretation services fall short – if they’re used at all – and put...
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State Lawmakers Consider Medical Interpretation Bill @imianews
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 By Megan Burks The meeting itself drove home the necessity of interpretation. Outfitted with headsets receiving signals from several interpreters, residents speaking...
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A need for more interpreters in Valley via The Fresno Bee
By Barbara Anderson – The Fresno Bee In the San Joaquin Valley, where roughly one in five people aren’t fluent in English, providing health care interpreters is a challenge — and could get worse under...
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Lawmakers push to unionize, regulate Medi-Cal #interpreters via The Tribune
Thousands of Medi-Cal medical interpreters would have the right to join a public employees union and collectively bargain with the state under a legislative push to regulate that profession. Assembly...
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Health care centers’ workers also serve as interpreters via Merced Sun-Star
By YESENIA AMARO Merced Sun-Star Using interpreters to help deliver medical care can be costly, so area health centers have taken different routes to bridge the language gap. At Golden Valley...
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California may provide interpreters for patients on Medi-Cal #interpreters
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Program assistant Mayra Dittman (L) helps Juanita Gilbert get up to walk at the Lifelong Medical Marin Adult Day Health Care Center on February 10, 2011 in Novato,...
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Lawmakers Consider Bill to Create Health Care Interpreters Program
(Sacramento, CA) Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Ellen Wu of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network says everyone who has health insurance in California is already guaranteed language interpretation. But in...
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Wrong time to add expense of medical interpreter bill OUR VIEW –The Modesto Bee
Assembly Bill 1263 by Speaker John A. Pérez seeks to improve and expand medical interpreter services for Medi-Cal patients. Access to care can be difficult if patients don’t speak English well....
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Open to Interpretation: Court Interpreters Hold the Fate of Justice in Their...
The prosecutor had been backing the defendant into the ropes. Now, he’s ready to tee up a haymaker of a question, the kind he hopes will corner the woman on the witness stand into telling an obvious...
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Smartphones put a translator in your pocket
The days of madly flipping through bilingual phrase books while trying to converse with somebody in another language is fast giving way to a technological alternative developed in the Bay Area and...
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Maya Interpreters Trained to Open Doors to a Culture –via Mission Local
Have you ever heard the Maya language spoken in San Francisco? If not, listen to our audio story to the right. It will open your ears to a little-known language spoken by thousands of people in the...
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California Interpreters Push State for More Trained Interpreters
One in five Californians speak English less than “very well.” During the next five years, with the implementation of health care reform, more than 3 million Californians will require language...
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Court Interpreters Ask For Decent Contract –via KMJ Everyday
Interpreters are used just about every day in court but that may change if a proposal to cut hours comes into play. Court interpreters stood outside the Fresno County Courthouse Wednesday holding signs...
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Bill Would Break Down Language Barriers for Immigrants Receiving Healthcare
A provision of federal healthcare reform may make it easier for immigrants to deal with language barriers. Under the Affordable Care Act, California is eligible to receive $270 million to set up an...
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California needs more interpreters for patients — via San Francisco Chronicle
Within minutes of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash in July, San Francisco General Hospital administrators knew they needed language translation services to help victims of this horrific accident....
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Patient-interpreter bill aims to overcome language barriers –via LA Times
By Titania Kumeh August 18, 2013, 4:57 p.m. Five years ago, Julio Perez’s mother didn’t understand what the doctors and nurses were saying. Her 4-year-old son, Perez’s younger brother, was on a...
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When You Can’t Understand Your Doctor –via East Bay Express
When You Can’t Understand Your Doctor Legislation in Sacramento would pave the way for hiring 7,000 medical interpreters statewide to help non-English speakers. But does it go far enough? By...
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ABBYY Language Services and Asia Online Announce Collaboration That Brings a...
Link to press release —-> click here MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – ABBYY Language Services, a hi-tech provider of localization services and translation management technologies, and...
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Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown vetoes bill to give Medi-Cal interpreters union...
Gov. Jerry Brown discusses the state budget at a news conference at the state Capitol in Sacramento in January. RANDALL BENTON — rbenton@sacbee.com Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation Sunday that...
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Health report highlights insurance disparities, casts light on importance of...
SAN PABLO — Although health care coverage will improve and expand under the Affordable Care Act, major disparities will remain for those still uninsured, possibly with worse health care access than...
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