Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project

Sandy Young, Family Nurse Practioner, President and CEO, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project; & Catalina Navarrete, Mixteco Interpreter, Las Islas Medical Group.

Speakers are from Oxnard, CA - Relay interpreting – Mixteco to Spanish to English

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Diabetes – vocabulary, tests and concepts in a medical appointment

What is Diabetes? Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism--the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body.

After digestion, glucose passes into the bloodstream, where it is used by cells for growth and energy. For glucose to get into cells, insulin must be present. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, a large gland behind the stomach.

When we eat, the pancreas is supposed to automatically produce the right amount of insulin to move glucose from blood into our cells. In people with diabetes, however, the pancreas either produces little or no insulin, or the cells do not respond appropriately to the insulin that is produced. Glucose builds up in the blood, overflows into the urine, and passes out of the body. Thus, the body loses its main source of fuel even though the blood contains large amounts of glucose.  Source: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medlineplus.html

Freelance Interpreters – possible presentation on making a freelance living

Organizational matters:

Quick report on 3^rd Annual CHIA conference & plans for next year in Southern California

Proposals for upcoming chapter presentations and meetings.

Future meetings

Saturday, December 6, 10 am to 12:30 pm

Holiday Brunch - Empress Pavilion Restaurant, 988 North Hill Street #201, Los Angeles, CA

SCATIA, CHIA and other organizations will share in a Chinese breakfast of Dim Sum in Chinatown

February 2004 – exact date to be determined - St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, Orange CA

Future meeting hosts may include Mt San Antonio College, Cedars Sinai, Long Beach, California Hospital, Cal State Northridge

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 CHIA LA-San Diego Chapter

Next Meetings: 

San Diego CHIA meeting

Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

1) Report-back on CHIA pilot test experience from
participants

2) Using the Internet to Build Your Medical
Terminology

More info to follow.

SDSU City Heights Community Technology Center
4283 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92105
Contact: Ms Beverly Treumann <beverlytreumann@yahoo.com>

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San Diego CHIA meeting

Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 – 8:30 pm

WHERE: San Diego State University City Heights Community Technology Center
4283 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 200
San Diego, CA   92105
(for MapQuest directions to this event, click here)

Cost: free to members / $10 donation (cash or check)
from non-members at the door – no one turned away

MEET OTHER HEALTHCARE INTERPRETERS!
Let’s get together! Please come to meet with others who, like you, seek to promote the use of trained healthcare interpreters.
· How can CHIA help develop and promote the healthcare interpreting profession in San Diego?
· How can members better advocate for culturally and linguistically appropriate services?
· How can education and training opportunities be extended to more people?
· Could San Diego be the site of the 4th annual CHIA conference in 2004?

CHIA UPDATES:
CHIA President Beverly Treumann and Board Member Julie Burns will provide updates on:

• The publication and distribution of the California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters

•  The PILOT CERTIFICATION TESTING PROGRAM which will take place in Merced, California in June

•  CHIA’s 18 month Sustainability Campaign

• CHIA’s 3rd Annual Conference to be held Sept 27, 2003 in Sacramento

• Bring updates of your organization’s activities.
  
  Beverly is a Spanish Interpreter at UCLA Medical Center.  She is certified for medical interpreting by Cooperative Personnel Services for the State of California. 
  
  Julie has a Masters in Education and is Interpreter Training Program Manager for The Cross Cultural Health Care Program.  She trains interpreters and trainers with CCHCP’s Bridging the Gap Program.  In addition to being a CHIA board member, she is the co-chair of the membership committee of the National Council of Interpreting in Health Care.
  
  Beverly & Julie will be in San Diego to participate in the 21st National Conference on Health Education and Health Promotion.  For info about the conference, visit:  www.astdhpphe.org/nationalconference 
  
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March 20, 2003
Annual Translation & Interpreting Forum,
San Diego State University

Keynote: Dr. Guadalupe Valdés,
Stanford University:
Bilingualism from a Different Perspective: The Case of Young Interpreters in the Latino Community

location: Casa Real, San Diego State University
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

For more information click here

Friday, February 7,  9:30 to 3 pm
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center;

California Healthcare Association, in partnership with CHIA, is co-sponsoring a second forum on

Linguistic Access to Healthcare Services for Patients with Limited-English Proficiency (LEP). 

RSVP must be received by January 29th.

Location:
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center,
2801 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806 

(for Mapquest directions to the conference site click here

The forum will cover the latest federal guidelines from the Office of
Civil Rights; development of quality interpreter services; costs and
financing; and innovative models for providing linguistic access.

Sponsoring the forums with CHA are the California Association of
Public Hospitals and Health Systems, California Health Care Safety
Net Institute, and California Healthcare Interpreters Association
with funding from The California Endowment.

For more information, contact:
CHA's education department at
(916) 552-7637. 

To register online please click link
below.
http://www.calhealth.org/public/edu/reg1.CFM 
 

Special Forum:
Linguistic Access to  Health Care Services for
Patients with Limited English Proficiency
February 7, 2003 9:30 - 3:00
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

Long Beach California now has a "minority majority" and health care is on the front lines of this demographic switch.  Many health care institutions and providers need to develop the resources and systems necessary to ensure linguistically and culturally appropriate access for all populations. 

This forum will supply California health care providers with the necessary tools to improve linguistic competence and meet legal, regulatory and accreditation standards.

Who Should Attend :
Hospital administrative executives, including:
·      Chief Executive Officers
·      Chief Operating Officers
·      Medical Directors
·      Nursing Directors
·      Interpreter Services Managers
·      Compliance Officers
·      Risk Managers
·      Interpreters

Agenda:

9:30a.m-10:00a.m  - Registration and continental breakfast 

10:00a.m-ll:00a.m - Overview of Title VI and Re1ated Guidance on LEP Patients (Ira Pollack) 
11:00a.m-ll:45 a.m - California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters
(Beverly Treumann) 
11:45a.m-12:15p.m   Making the Business Case and Financing Linguistic
Services (Doreena Wong) 

1:15 p.m.-1:00p.m. LUNCH 

1:00p.m-2:00p.m Best Practices in Language Access Services-Los
Angeles County (Miya Iwataki and Jorge Orozco) 
2:00p.m-3:00p.m   Best Practices in Language Access Services - Boston
(Loretta Saint-Louis) 

Speakers: Miya Iwataki is the Director of the Office of Diversity
Programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. 
Jorge Orozco, is Chief of Physical Therapy and Director of
Rehabilitation Therapy Services at Ranch Los Amigos National
Rehabilitation Center.
Loretta Saint-Louis is the Director of
Interpreter Services at Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston. 
Beverly Treumann is the President of the California Healthcare Interpreters
Association. 
Ira Pollack is the Regional Manager for the Region IX
Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human
Services. 
Doreena Wong is Staff Attorney for the National Health Law
Program Forum

Tuition $25 tuition includes continental breakfast, lunch and written
materials.  Prepaid Discounted Daily Parking $2 (Validation provided
at event check-in. Non prepaid daily parking fees are $6.) 

(for online registration click here)

For Registration by Mail or Fax:
MAIL registrations to:
California Healthcare Association
ATTN: Education 1215 K Street, Suite 800
Sacramento, CA 95814
or FAX: (916) 552-7506

A program brochure may be downloaded: click here:
(note that the brochure (47 KB) is in Adobe PDF format and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

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Orange County Meeting

Saturday, February 8, 8:30 – 12:30

St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, Orange CA

Zoul Auditorium
(Hospital basement)
1100 W Stewart Drive, Orange   92866

For directions & parking info from the St. Joseph Hospital website, click here
(For Mapquest driving directions
from your address, click here)

Cost: free to CHIA members / $10 donation (cash or check) from non-members at the door – no one turned away!!
(become a CHIA member, click here!)

RSVP: luataylor@sjo2.stjoe.org

or call: 714-771-8000 ext 7295

Program:

Session 1

Cultural Competency and the Use of Interpreters

Presenter: Veronica  (Ronnie) Kelley is the Service Chief for the Orange County Cultural Competency Department

 This presentation will discuss cultural competency standards as applied to delivery systems within the Orange County Healthcare Agency.  Ronnie will talk about language access and staff training that supports the use of language and cultural services.

 Session 2

Hablamos Juntos su Idioma Demonstration Project for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
– Expanding the Capacity of Interpreter Services for Latinos Across the Continuum of Care

Presenter: Martha Bernadett, MD, MBA,
                Molina Healthcare, Inc.

 Session 3

Language Enhancement- A Focus on Renal Transplant

A review of the Renal Transplant process for the patient.  This segment will provide and opportunity for language enhancement by introducing terminology pertinent to the patient education process.

Presenter: Dr. Ervin Rusics MD
Medical Director St. Joseph Renal Transplant Center

Saturday, January 18,
9:30 AM – 12:30

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Wiengart Auditorium
4650 Sunset Boulevard, , L.A.  90027-6062
(cross street: Vermont)

(Childrens Hospital LA Map/parking directions - click here)
(for Mapquest directons - click here!)

Cost: free to members /
$10 donation (cash or check) from non-members
at the door – no one turned away

To attend this seminar, please rsvp to: beverlytreumann@yahoo.com

Program:

Session 1: Online Resources for Healthcare Interpreters

Presenter: Heidi Thiessen Sandstrom is the Consumer Health Information Services Coordinator for the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library, based at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles

This presentation/demonstration will highlight health information resources and services that are available for healthcare interpreters through the National Library of Medicine website and other authoritative websites.  These sites include resources for quick medical reference, patient education, current awareness, medical research, and multilingual/multicultural health information. 

Handouts on the resources and services presented will be provided to participants.

Ms. Thiessen Sandstrom works with healthcare/information providers to improve the public's access to health information.  She has presented before numerous local, regional, and national audiences, and has conducted a variety of workshops highlighting resources of the National Library of Medicine.  Before becoming a medical librarian, Heidi worked in the Los Angeles area as a registered nurse/certified public health nurse in a variety of clinical, instructional and hospital quality improvement settings.

Session 2:
Listening to subtleties: What a cardiologist wants to know when a patient has chest pain.*

Presenter: Dr. Peter Guzy, M.D., PhD., Clinical Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center

*OR: palpitations, irregular heartbeats, shortness of breath, fluid retention, swelling in the legs. 
Dr. Guzy will describe the clinical interview. 
This presentation will help you anticipate the vocabulary that may be part of an encounter between a cardiologist and a patient including possible follow-up procedures such as "stress test," "catheterization," "pacemaker implantation," and  "radio frequency catheter ablation for tachycardia."

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