Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-490i

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 19a-490i - Interpreter services and linguistic access in acute care hospitals

Each acute care hospital in this state shall:

(1) Develop and annually review a policy on the provision of interpreter services to non-English-speaking patients;

(2) Ensure the availability of interpreter services to patients whose primary language is spoken by a group comprising not less than five per cent of the population residing in the geographic area served by the hospital;

(3) Prepare and maintain a list of qualified interpreters;

(4) Notify hospital staff of the requirement to provide interpreters to non-English-speaking patients;

(5) Post multilingual notices of the availability of interpreters to non-English-speaking patients;

(6) Review standardized forms to determine the need for translation for use by non-English-speaking patients;

(7) Consider providing hospital staff with picture and phrase sheets for communication with non-English-speaking patients; and

(8) Establish liaisons to non-English-speaking communities in the geographic area served by the hospital.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-490i

( P.A. 00-119; P.A. 15-34, S. 1.)

Amended by P.A. 15-0034, S. 1 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2015.