Upgrade to Health Association’s Web Site Offering Medical Documents in Multiple Languages

Posted by Gale Petersen  January 25, 2008

“The Missouri Hospital Association is expanding a Web site that catalogs documents in more than 30 languages to improve communication between providers and patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), the Springfield News-Leader reports. Launched in 2003, www.HealthTranslations.com contains 720 translated documents and resources . . .” Materials on the nicely organized site are in English and either Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish or Vietnamese (Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

You may read the RWJF summary of the news or go to the HealthTranslations.com Website and see what‘s there.

Topics: Cultural Competence, Health Care, Language, Technology