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U.S. Laws on Language Barriers and Access to Health
Care:
The National Health Law Program-Kaiser Family Foundation Project
The legal obligations of health care providers
to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate services to limited
English speaking patients is the subject of a year-long study by the Los
Angeles, CA-based National Health
Law Program (NHeLP). Funded through a grant from
the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, this investigation will culminate
in the publication of a guide to the law on this subject in Spring, 1997.
The NHeLP guide will describe provider obligations
to limited English speaking patients under Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, the Medicaid Act, the Hill-Burton Act, the Emergency Medical
Treatment and Labor Act, the Refugee Act of 1980, the Disadvantaged Minority
Health Improvement Act of 1990, state Medicaid managed care contracts, and
a variety of other federal, state and local laws. It will also discuss model
private standards and practices, and summarize the results of interviews
that NHeLP is conducting with key informants in every state to acertain
the availability of language services for patients nationwide.
Findings and reports from this project will be
posted on DiversityRx as they become available. For additional information,
please contact:
Jane Perkins
National Health Law Program
211 N. Columbia Street, 2nd Floor
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 968-6308 |
