5040.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Increasing Access by Enhancing Cultural Competence

18956, 26859, 26883, 29448
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Papers have objectives
Presider(s):Joyce R. Gaufin, BS
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMImplementing cultural competence in Medicaid managed care organizations
Alexander F. Ross, ScD, Tamara Dionne Allen, MBA
8:55 AMNational standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in health care
Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW
9:15 AMProviding culturally and linguistically appropriate services: Results and lessons learned from a survey of health care organizations
Abdin Noboa-Rios, PhD, Tula Michaelides, MPH, Gale Harris
9:35 AMMore than a contract: An innovative arrangement to provide interpretive services to Utah Medicaid clients with limited English proficiency (LEP)
Joyce R. Gaufin, BS, Andrea Hight, BS
9:55 AMConcluding Remarks
Sponsor:Health Administration
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Social Work; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA