Lexington Medical Center is helping bridge language gaps in healthcare by offering interpreters, ensuring non-English ...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, attention is being drawn to the vital role of Spanish medical interpreters in the healthcare system. Jesus Zamudio Zavala, ...

Jesus Mendoza, a second-year student at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, is turning his own ...

Anita LaPlaca has a specialty niche in the health-care industry - a medical Spanish interpreter who aids communications between Spanish-speaking patients and doctors at Rainbow Pediatrics at the ...

Unlike his Spanish-speaking parents, who came to America from Mexico, Angel Martinez, 7, is fluent in the language of their adopted country. But when would it be OK to ask someone so young to tell his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roxana Del Barco is the Medical Interpretation Coordinator at University of Maryland Medical Center and the Maryland State Chapter Chair of the International Medical Interpreters Association. She has ...

Debbie Lesser is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter for one of the largest health systems in the ...