It's the law!
This was the first Federal law to prohibit any program receiving federal funding from discrimination against LEP persons.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
Patients are often asked to sign a form stating that they have been informed of their right to privacy under this federal law.
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
This is where a patient would go to see their regular doctor.
Primary care clinic
Which law says that family members and children are not allowed to act as interpreters?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, “Obamacare”)
This document is signed to indicate that the doctor and the patient have discussed the risks, benefits, and alternatives to a surgery, and that the patient agrees to do it.
Informed Consent form
This is where patient would go to see a doctor who treats a particular disease or body system.
Specialty Clinic
Name two things that should not be used to discriminate against a person according to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
Race, color, national origin
This is a legal document that outlines what medical treatments a patient wants, or doesn't want, at the end of life when they may not be able to express their wishes directly.
Advanced Directive
(A living will is a type of Advanced Directive)
This is where a patient would go to receive care for a life-threatening issue.
Emergency Room
ED, ER
What type of consequence could happen for healthcare facilities that don't provide language access?
Fines
Lawsuits
Government investigations & loss of funding
A legal document that authorizes a trusted person to manage the medical affairs and make medical decisions on behalf of a patient.
Power of Attorney
This is where a patient would go for a minor surgery, which does not require them to spend the night in the hospital.
Outpatient Surgery Center
Ambulatory Surgery Center
Which document requires that organizations provide print resources and signs in the most commonly used languages for their local population.
The CLAS standards
This is a legal document that instructs healthcare personnel to not perform CPR or other life-saving measures if a patient's heart or breathing stops.
DNR
Do-not-resuscitate order
This is where a newborn baby with breathing issues would stay after being born.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NICU