Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Nursing Grand Rounds “ Working with Limited English Proficient Patients and Interpreter Services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, 5/26/2021 8:00:00 AM - 5/26/2024 9:00:00 AM, Interpreter Services are critical to ensuring patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) receive safe and effective care at D-H. This presentation will increase awareness of services that exist and how to access those services, the risks that LEP experience in accessing healthcare due to language barriers as well as risks to the patient and institution in not using qualified professional interpreters, and the benefits to the patient and institution in using trained professional interpreters.
Activity Details
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Presenter
Samuel Verkhovsky, MIPP, MPH, CoreCHI
Manager of Medical Interpreter & Translation Services
Office of Patient Experience, DHMC
Learning Outcome(s)
At the end of this learning activity, participants will be able to describe best practices in working with interpreter services and Limited English Proficient patients at Dartmouth Hitchcock.
Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.
*A financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Resources
Overcoming The Challenges of Providing Care to LEP Patients. Joint Commission Quick Safety Issue 12 May 2015
Activity Details
View Presentation
Presenter
Samuel Verkhovsky, MIPP, MPH, CoreCHI
Manager of Medical Interpreter & Translation Services
Office of Patient Experience, DHMC
Learning Outcome(s)
At the end of this learning activity, participants will be able to describe best practices in working with interpreter services and Limited English Proficient patients at Dartmouth Hitchcock.
Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.
*A financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Resources
Overcoming The Challenges of Providing Care to LEP Patients. Joint Commission Quick Safety Issue 12 May 2015
