May-September Accreditation News 2016 – California Special Supplement – Volume 8, Issue 3
CA ONLY: Hospital Language Assistance Services in California On December 15, 2015, the California Department of Public Health posted an “All Facilities Letter” related to Assembly Bill 389. This bill requires general acute care hospitals to make its language assistance policy available on their websites. The posted notice on the hospital website should be in English and in up to five of the other most commonly spoken languages in the hospital’s service area, and is to be updated as policy changes occur. Each general acute [...]