Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that transactions of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary language; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-22 - REFERRED TO RULES [A05225 Detail]

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Amended	1969-12-31	HTML/Text	Link	View

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