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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or doctors because you did not speak their language and could not read your own language. Add to that: having no insurance and no clue what the diagnosis meant. About 10 years ago, a Mexican immigrant was…
Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.
Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities
In 2010, as an extension of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Health For Life: Better Health.
Rick W. Merrill, president and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, is the 2013 chair of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Maternal and Child Health.
Year after year, America's hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 2008 after the closing of a local health center which had treated large numbers of refugees, Rochester (N.Y.) General Health System (RGHS) created the Refugee Healthcare Program the same year. RGHS…