Mohamud Aden sat in urgent care at Regions Hospital with a Somali immigrant who knew little English but spoke the international language of sick – snort, cough, cough, cough, snort! The 24-year-old ...

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, ...

Howard County General Hospital should hire its own foreign language interpreters to handle the non-English speaking women giving birth there, said a local agency that works closely with foreign-born ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized patients who aren’t fluent in English end up spending fewer days in the hospital when they get help from a language interpreter at certain crucial times, ...

Romualdo Rivera arrives at the emergency room with what seems to be a complaint of chest pain. But it’s hard to be sure — he doesn’t speak English. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

JACKSONVILLE - The hiring of two full-time language interpreters at Passavant Area Hospital -- one Spanish speaking, one French -- reflects the changing patient population served by the Jacksonville ...