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Language Line Services, Moffitt Cancer Center to Sponsor Free 'Linguistic & Cultural Needs' Symposium in Tampa
Educational program open to healthcare providers, compliance officers and hospital leadership to prepare for new Joint Commission standards and more
MONTEREY, Calif., Dec. 16, 2011 -- Language Line Services' Language Access Center for Excellence together with the H.
Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and other Florida healthcare leaders are sponsoring a free symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 20, at the cancer center in Tampa, Fla., titled "Addressing the Linguistic & Cultural Needs of Florida's Diverse Patient Population."
"Tampa is rich in cultural diversity and provides the perfect backdrop for this full-day healthcare educational program which, among other things, will help prepare hospitals and other healthcare organizations for the new language access accreditation standards from The Joint Commission," said Louis F. Provenzano, Jr., president & CEO of Language Line Services, the global leader in interpretation and translation services for the healthcare industry and numerous other sectors.
The symposium is available free to all healthcare providers, compliance officers and hospital leadership to better prepare them for the language challenges of a growing and evolving metropolitan community.
To RSVP for this December 20th symposium in Tampa, Fla.
please complete the brief form here http://bit.ly/sn0P7F
Other sponsors of the symposium include the Office of Minority Health, Florida Department of Health, the Florida Hospital Association and the International Medical Interpreter Association.
Subject matter experts will discuss:
-- New and revised patient-centered communication standards
-- New revision of the Culturally & Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards
-- Legal perspectives for language access compliance and
risk management strategies
-- A physician's account on best practices in caring for
limited English proficient patients in a hospital
setting and in home visits
-- Integration of technology in providing language access
-- Cultural competence in health care settings in Florida
-- Benefits and challenges of working with your bilingual
staff for interpreting needs
-- What hospitals need to know when implementing an
organizational language access program
Once again, interested healthcare professionals should RSVP for this December 20th event in Tampa, Fla. here http://bit.ly/sn0P7F or contact Oscar Arocha at oarocha@languageline.com.
Please indicate within the form if you require American Sign Language.
About Language Line Services
Language Line Services, the global leader in telephone interpreting and language solutions, serves clients in government, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, insurance and many other industries by quickly connecting them to their customers, patients and sales prospects in more than 170 spoken languages as well as American Sign Language (ASL) and Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Language Line Services is recognized as a trusted partner to thousands of public and private organizations throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, providing easy access to the industry's fastest language interpreting service at highly competitive rates. For more information about Language Line Services' suite of telephone, on-site and video interpreting, document translation, interpreter assessment and training programs, please call (800) 752-6096 or visit http://www.languageline.com
Contact:
Trent Freeman
Olmstead Williams Communications
310.824.9000
tfreeman@olmsteadwilliams.com
http://www.olmsteadwilliams.com
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