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A 1236 (see companion bill S 3282) – New York
Status: Inactive / DeadYear Introduced: 2017
Link: https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A01236&term=2017&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient’s assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that transactions of frequently used forms essential to a patient’s care and treatment be available in all of the hospital’s primary language; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.
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