Midwest Alliance for Health Education Offers Free Webinar: Interpreting the Challenging Culture of Healthcare

February 3, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 ET

Do you feel like you’re not always understood?  Language and cultural barriers can have a significant impact on medical care, resulting in misdiagnosis, inappropriate treatment, medication errors and poor delivery of care. As health care organizations face additional challenges to accommodate diverse patient populations, effective communication is key. Accrediting bodies, like The Joint Commission, are focusing on these issues and proposing new requirements for hospital certification. Your invited to a free webinar "Interpreting the Changing Culture of Healthcare" on February 3, 2010 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST with Sheila Rettig, RN, MSN, President of Interpreter Network, LLC.  Come learn how effective communication can result in better treatment and improved quality of patient care. 

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