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LEP in Education: Providing Language Access for Students and Parents
English-learning students and their parents face unique challenges in our country’s education system. A thoughtful language access plan can help them surmount those challenges. English learners make up a significant chunk of students in the United States — roughly 10%...
Voting Rights Act: Language access and voter turnout
2024 is an election year here in the United States, and you know what that means: another year packed with political messaging and get-out-the-vote campaigns. And while local politicians and presidential candidates alike will certainly be doing work to court voters...
Avantpage and EmTex Offer Seamless MDR Compliance Solutions
In the dynamic landscape of the life sciences industry, collaboration can be key to overcoming complex challenges and delivering exceptional results. Recently, Avantpage Life Sciences and EmTex Life Science joined forces to address an MDR compliance challenge...
A Guide to Finding a Medicare Translation Agency
It’s important for Medicare plan providers and healthcare organizations to make sure they’re able to communicate effectively with their patients — and that means speaking to them in their language. Medicare Advantage sponsors are required by the Centers for Medicare...
5 Ways Language Access Can Improve Your CMS Star Ratings
Every year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) release a series of star ratings that patients can use to evaluate the quality of the services that a Medicare Advantage health plan offers. As a health insurance provider, it’s important to make sure...
How to Provide Language Access for Indigenous Languages
All too often, conversations about language access focus on languages that are spoken most widely throughout the country — think languages like Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog or your local threshold languages. And while it’s certainly important to cater your language...