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, ...

Dr. Jennifer Servi-Roberts, third from left, observes, from left, community Spanish-interpreting students Cristal Castaneda of Clayton, Luis Vera of Smithfield and Rita Harrington of Coats as they ...

In the best of times, visits to a physician can be daunting if the medical provider and the patient speak different languages. A pandemic, and all of the fears it generates, makes the visit even more ...

Given that one-third of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States—about 16 million people—speak English less than "very well" (2), Stratus Video Interpreting predicts that the expanded healthcare ...

Many health care workers in the Tri-Cities — from doctors and nurses to those behind a clinic’s front counter — speak more than one language, industry officials and educators say. And they are ...

As hospitals across the country grapple with a lack of medical interpreters, one California hospital has come up with an innovative strategy to communicate with patients who don't speak either English ...