Mohamud Aden sat in urgent care at Regions Hospital with a Somali immigrant who knew little English but spoke the international language of sick – snort, cough, cough, cough, snort! The 24-year-old ...

Even people who speak English fluently often find that conversations with healthcare professionals sound like Greek to them. So imagine if you speak only Greek or Spanish or Farsi and want to have, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospitalized patients who aren't fluent in English end up spending fewer days in the hospital when they get help from a language interpreter at certain crucial times, ...

CINCINNATI — College Hill grandfather Mike Funez has found himself on the front lines during the COVID-19 crisis — not as a doctor or a nurse, but as a hospital interpreter for patients with limited ...

Howard County General Hospital should hire its own foreign language interpreters to handle the non-English speaking women giving birth there, said a local agency that works closely with foreign-born ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Candice Lisenby has been using American Sign Language from an early age. Born deaf, she’s never let it slow her down. But she’s certainly faced some challenges along the way. "I ...

Terry Murray said he was in hospital for 24 hours without an interpreter [BBC] A deaf man who spent 24 hours in hospital without the support of an interpreter said staff were shouting out his name ...

For Marta Rodriguez, helping very sick patients understand their prognosis has become routine — but it hasn’t become any easier. By Emma Goldberg — Marta Rodriguez, a medical interpreter [In Her Words ...

JACKSONVILLE - The hiring of two full-time language interpreters at Passavant Area Hospital -- one Spanish speaking, one French -- reflects the changing patient population served by the Jacksonville ...