On July 28, GNYHA will convene a quarterly meeting—via webinar—of the GNYHA Hospital Language Assistance Coordinators Forum. The webinar, designed to be interactive, will enable coordinators to share hospital and health system experiences handling language access during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, identify issues, and discuss lessons learned. The meeting will inform GNYHA’s plans…

On September 23, GNYHA will host a briefing on best practices for serving patients who are hard-of-hearing and deaf. Presentations by hard-of-hearing and deaf advocates will provide information about the demographics of this population and highlight auxiliary aids and services that best serve these patients. Linda C. Colón, Region II Manger of the US Department…

On Friday, June 17, 2016, GNYHA will host a briefing on the provisions of the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities final rule published May 18 in the Federal Register by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The rule implements Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act…