Welcome to CHIA
 California Healthcare Interpreters Association

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CHIA's mission is to: Increase equal access to healthcare by
    *          Developing and promoting the healthcare interpreter profession
  *          Advocating for culturally and linguistically appropriate services
*          Providing education and training to healthcare professionals.

CHIA is opposed to cuts to Interpreter Services at San Francisco General Hospital - or at any other healthcare facility in California! This is a "cost-saving" strategy that does not make much sense!

for more information, click here

Action Alert on AB 154

Support letters needed for AB 154 -Cultural and Linguistic Competency in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families

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California Standards
for Healthcare Interpreters
Available Online!
Click here for a message from CHIA President Beverly Treumann!

 

If you are concerned about improving the healthcare interpreting profession, please join CHIA and become a CHIA member, and help move the healthcare interpreting profession forward.
 

Winter 2003 Newsletter

(In Adobe PDF format and 1250KB - about 8 minutes download time @ 56KB.

 

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UPCOMING CHIA Workshops: 
(+ Other workshops)

CHIA's Newsletters:

Latest Interpreter News 
(updates daily!

  Doctors' Orders Can Get Lost In Translation for Immigrants: Physicians Question the Cost and Need Of Breaking-Down the Language Barrier...For more on this Jan 09 2003 story in the
Wall St. Journal, click here

American Medical Association News Article on Interpreters more balanced than earlier articles and provides some support for use of interpreters
click here for more information

  Oakland Highland Hospital Unveils Plan to Meet Needs of Diverse Community -
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Reports from the Interpreter Advocacy Front: Click here

  "A review of meetings between doctors and non-English-speaking patients reveals that language interpreters make many mistakes, more than half of which could have a negative impact on the patient's health..."

For more on this story, in the January 2003 issue of Pediatrics, and for other news from the Health Interpreter Research Front -
Click here

Join in our upcoming workshops!
 Bay Area Chapter
 

  Los Angeles Chapter 
 

  Central Valley Chapter  
 

  Sacramento Chapter

Job Offers:

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX, expects to hire up to three Equal Opportunity Specialists (civil rights investigators) for its San Francisco
Regional Office and/or its Los Angeles Field Office....more

More articles on healthcare interpreting in the newspapers

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