Providing language access to health care is more than just a good idea – it is required.
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Funding for language access services in health care comes from four traditional sources: hospital operating budgets, state and federal funding, insurance companies, and foundational grants. Today, hospitals continue to bear most of the burden for financing language access programs, but that may be changing.
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In today's economic climate, the "do more with less" philosophy has never been more real. The growing demand for language services competes directly with increased pressure to maintain or even cut the budgets that fund their delivery. ProLingua is a software technology designed specifically to help healthcare organizations overcome this challenge.
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The incredible growth of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) community has far outstripped the funding of language access programs designed to support them. As the growth rate continues to accelerate, hospitals struggle to build cost-effective, scalable systems to meet the growing demand interpretation services.
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As our patient population grows more diverse, hospitals are increasingly challenged to provide high quality language services to patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Learn how the systematic capture and utilization of patient data allows hospitals to more effectively target improvement strategies for language service delivery.
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This is the first in a series of panel discussions on the crisis language and cultural barriers have created in the health care industry. Approximately 26 million U.S. residents speak little or no English. More than 50 million speak a language other than English at home. What do these people have in common? Most will pass through the health care system at some time, but will have difficulty gaining access to services and communicating clearly with providers.
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