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Health Care Interpreters: Medical Necessity

The state needs an effective, efficient, transparent and high-quality system that provides not only direct translation but cultural sensitivity. We may never know how many other deaths have occurred because of misunderstandings in the medical community. We do know that when people are unable to communicate with their doctors, serious and costly mistakes can occur.
Read this editorial by Jeannette B. DeJesus, President and CEO of The Hispanic Health Council, published in The Hartford Courant on March 13, 2009.