Critical information must be disclosed by healthcare organizations in order to comply with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Yet, giving patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) additional translated documents can improve patient care and lower readmission rates.
Hospitals can help LEP patients more effectively by translating content from multiple departments in addition to posting a Notice of Non-Discrimination and using appropriate taglines. Following are some instances of healthcare translation projects:
To comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it’s crucial to use transcription services for things like big print documents, braille, audio, and Section 508-related projects in addition to translation.
300 language translation services offered in full
The linguists at ApexLingo have the ability to translate diverse texts and materials into hundreds of languages:
Your contents are translated by vetted, experienced subject matter specialists, edited by a second linguist, and given a final quality check by a committed project manager.
The majority of our projects are translated by our linguists within our password-protected translation portal, obviating the usual security issues associated with downloading files to individual PCs.
To save you money and maintain the consistency of your materials, we use a translation memory database for each customer, incorporating previously translated text into new projects.
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