A deaf man who spent 24 hours in hospital without the support of an interpreter said staff were shouting out his name despite being told he could not hear. Terry Murray, from Rugby, is among a group ...

Patients who need interpreters wait 27% longer for physician evaluation in emergency departments, with only 68% correctly identified, a recent study found.

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter ...

A review by STAT of court records and inspection reports of hospitals around the nation found dozens of instances in which deaf patients said they were not given adequate interpreter services. In one ...

Many physicians fail to use readily available interpreters with their non-English speaking patients, opting for “getting by” with their own limited foreign language skills or using a patient’s friend ...

The Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges hosted a specialized workshop focused on helping interpreters better ...

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter challenging, often life-changing medical decisions. In many hospitals, a member of ...

The state comptroller's office called for reforms to Health + Hospitals' interpretation services after an audit found widespread failures in the system. An audit of the hospital’s language access ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nothing should stand in the way of someone getting quality health care, not even a language barrier, which is why interpreters are important. In this “Healthy Living with UNM ...

We're constantly learning about the coronavirus and the disease COVID-19. So imagine not only treating a moving target but also communicating all the new or changing information to worried patients ...

A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter was. Colleen Agnew's husband was taken to hospital recently after an ...