{"id":567,"date":"2010-10-13T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=567"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:00:42","slug":"joint-commission-focuses-on-language-skills-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2010\/10\/13\/joint-commission-focuses-on-language-skills-in-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Commission Focuses on Language Skills in Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that over 20% of our population speaks a language other than English, bilingualism is increasingly important for some medical professionals.\u00a0 The Joint Commission&#8217;s new initiative seeks to increase hospitals&#8217; focus on language skills and cultural awareness: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/louis-provenzano\/hospitals-must-overcome-l_b_749321.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/louis-provenzano\/hospitals-must-overcome-l_b_749321.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Commission has set ambitious goals for the future, but they are critical to the health of our nation.\u00a0 Transparent Language looks forward to helping medical professionals meet these goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that over 20% of our population speaks a language other than English, bilingualism is increasingly important for some medical professionals.\u00a0 The Joint Commission&#8217;s new initiative seeks to increase hospitals&#8217; focus on language skills and cultural awareness: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/louis-provenzano\/hospitals-must-overcome-l_b_749321.html The Joint Commission has set ambitious goals for the future, but they are critical to the health&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2010\/10\/13\/joint-commission-focuses-on-language-skills-in-hospitals\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[542801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}