Terry Murray said he was in hospital for 24 hours without an interpreter [BBC] A deaf man who spent 24 hours in hospital without the support of an interpreter said staff were shouting out his name ...
Margaret Weiss with her first child, Odelia. She’s pregnant again and due July 24, and this time she’s suing her local hospital for not providing an onside sign-language interpreter in the delivery ...
CROWNSVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — The coronavirus pandemic has created a new set of challenges for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, especially for those who read lips in order to communicate. Randi ...
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Two years ago, Connecticut hospitals and the state’s deaf residents came to an agreement guaranteeing that a sign language interpreter arrive in an examining room within an hour of the need for care.
Richard says it took two days for a qualified interpreter to arrive and explain he had been given the all-clear. "If an ...
A group of deaf people seeking injunctive relief against a Prince George’s County hospital after it failed to provide a sign language interpreter on multiple occasions can proceed with a civil claim ...
A deaf man wrongly believed he had HIV for two days due to the lack of an interpreter while receiving test results at a ...
As Lothair, a white Sheltie therapy dog, makes his way in to United States Air Force Hospital Langley in Hampton, Va., for his weekly visit to meet with patients, he walks tall and proud into the ...
HAMPTON, Va. – As Lothair, a white Sheltie therapy dog, makes his way in to USAF Hospital Langley in Hampton for his weekly visit to meet with patients, he walks tall and proud into the building and ...
A federal lawsuit filed last week contends that Laurel Regional Hospital has violated the rights of its deaf patients by not having sign language interpreters available during medical consultations ...