Saturday morning quarterbacking is much easier than dealing with tricky situations at the time. It is well worth the time to think of the worst language support misses or mistakes you have heard of or experienced, and to design safeguards to prevent such situations from…
Linda GolleySeptember 10, 2019
The highest good is that the patient will have his health care goals met AND have his cultural needs met. The organization must also follow the law with respect to providing competent language support if the patient cannot communicate fully with the care team in…
Linda GolleySeptember 9, 2019
The Medicare Readmissions Reduction Program serves this purpose brilliantly. This program is designed as a cost-cutting measure, to interrupt the cycle of patients being admitted over and over for the same condition when that condition could and should be managed more effectively by the care…
Linda GolleySeptember 9, 2019
Interpreter rounds on inpatients: First, let’s look at systematically scheduling interpreters to round twice a day on every language need patient with the floor nurses, to make sure that the patients and families understand the plan for the day and have all concerns and questions…
Linda GolleySeptember 5, 2019
MasterWordSeptember 4, 2019
Houston Matters' Joshua Zinn learns more about our upcoming event: Serving People at the Moment of Death. Listen to this interview with Alejandro Chaoul and Ludmila Golovine JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZlbWJlZC5ocG0uaW8lMkYzNDA4MDIlMkYzNDA3ODAlMjIlMjBzdHlsZSUzRCUyMmhlaWdodCUzQSUyMDExNXB4JTNCJTIwd2lkdGglM0ElMjAxMDAlMjUlM0IlMjIlM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=
MasterWordJuly 26, 2019
