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Policy Of Current Hospital Translation Services And Recommendations For Future Adjustments For Spanish-Speaking Patients, Isidora Rose Beach

Baker Scholar Projects

It is a seldom-discussed fact that English-speakers in America enjoy a quality of health care that is not necessarily afforded to non-native speakers receiving care at the same facilities. Policy regarding what is required of health institutions in terms of translation services is exceedingly vague, and implementation of this policy is inconsistent. This lack of guidance makes it possible for many patients needing interpreters to fall through the cracks. This project will examine current policy guiding interpretive services in the U.S., and will recommend more specific guidelines that would improve quality of care for limited English proficiency individuals. This project …

Policy Of Current Hospital Translation Services And Recommendations For Future Adjustments For Spanish-Speaking Patients, Isidora Rose Beach

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Update - May 2002, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- The Compleat Physician
-- Informed Consent Documentation for Total Artificial Hearth Technology
-- Ralph J. and Carolyn Thompson Endowment established in 2001

Update - December 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- John and Alice Wong establish bioethics endowment
-- Richard Rice receives Templeton Award
-- "Humans" and "Persons" in Christian Bioethics (Commentary)
-- Mechanically Restraining the Ill and Elderly: Ethical Problems and Proposals
-- Clinical Ethics Consultation
-- Learn to minister in the clinical setting

Update - July 1997, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies
-- Life versus Death: The Ethical Imperative to Practice and Teach Using the Newly Dead
-- You Can't Always Get What You Want
-- MA in Clinical Ethics
-- MA in Clinical Ministry

Update - December 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Bioehtics Endowment Honors Jack and Margaret Provonsha
-- Partial Birth Abortion: Ethical Issues
-- Partial Birth Abortion: Mandates, Methods, and Morality
-- Partial Birth Abortion Dialogue

Update - October 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Is Organ Reanimation a Better Mousetrap?
-- Reanimation of Dead Hearts
-- Reanimation Dialogue
-- James W. Walters publishes second book on ethics and aging

Update - July 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Stress and Distress in Pediatric Nurses: The Hidden Tragedy of Baby K
-- Ethics Grand Rounds: The Year in Review
-- CEJA Reverses Its Stance on Using Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors
-- AMA Council's Ethics Overwhelmed by Public Sentiment

Update - July 1995, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Gender Discrimination in the Medical Community

[ Responses to the American Medical Association of the Use of Anencephalic Neonates as Organ Donors ]
-- Maintain the "Dead Donor Rule"
-- Stairway to Hell
-- Let Parents Choose
-- Revisiting the Issues

Update - May 1992, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

[ Faith, Medicine, and Religious Liberty - Part 2, Christian Science ]
-- Spiritual Healing for Children
-- Religious Liberty, Spiritual Healing, and the Health Care of Children
-- Spiritual Healing, Laws, and Constitutional Free Exercise of Religious Rights
-- Baby Theresa: Parental Choice Must Reign in the Case of Brain-Absent Newborns
-- Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Do We Follow Rules or Emotions?

Update - February 1992, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

[ Faith, Medicine, and Religious Liberty - Part 1, Jehovah's Witnesses ]
-- Blood Transfusions: A Patient's Right to Refuse
-- Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood Transfusion
-- Blood Transfusions: A Patient's Right to Refuse
-- A Patient's Right to Refuse Blood Transfusions: The Legal Rights of Privacy, Autonomy, and Free Exercise of Religion

-- [ Second National Conference on Health Care for the Elderly Co-sponsored by the Center for Christian Bioethics and Multidisciplinary Geriatric Council - March 1 & 2 ]

Update - December 1991, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- The Physician as an Agent of God: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

-- [ Medical Futility: A Value-Dependent Concept ]

Update - November 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Gerald Winslow joins LLU faculty
-- Thompson library opens September 25

[ Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Ethical Issues ]
-- A Neonatologist's Concern
-- A Neonatologist's Reply
-- Should the Law be Changed?
-- Would Anencephalic Neonates be Citizens?
-- Cadaveric Donors Should be Dead

-- Ethics Center seeks $100,000

Update - July 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Baby Jessie and Beyond
-- Newsbriefs
-- The Bouvia Decision: Right But Inadequate
-- LLU plans conference on ethics and transplantation

[ Apartheid and Morality Today ]
-- Growing Up White in South Africa
-- In Favor of Constructive Engagement
-- Divestment: Realistic Moral Opposition to Apartheid

-- What should treatment committees consider?
-- Religion and Politics on Sabbath (Editorial)
-- George Otto Schumacher, MD (1913-1986)
-- Thomas Gordon Goman, PhD (1944-1986)

Update - Spring 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- 250 Attend first national ethics conference
-- Capron to discuss "The High Cost of Dying"
-- Our twofold potential (Editorial)
-- Letter to the Editor

[ Reflections Regarding Organ Transplantation ]
-- Excepts from "Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation" public lecture

--Do cancer patients expect too much?

Update - Fall 1984, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Robert Veatch to lecture in January at Loma Linda
-- Bioethics conference slated for April
-- Charles Teel Jr. will lead Central America probe

[ Reflections Regarding Baby Fae ]
-- Ethical Issues Evoked by Baby Fae
-- The Best Available Therapy
-- The Morality of Experimenting Upon Children

-- Who Should Live When All Can? (Review)
-- Ruffcorn pledges yearly $10,000
-- Cafferky's provide $100,000
-- Ethics center seeks $500,000