Health care spoken here
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The Community House Calls program helps caregivers at Seattle, WA's Harborview Medical Center serve minority patients more effectively. The program's 'interpreter cultural mediators' are bilingual and bicultural, and they provide comprehensive cultural mediation. They interact with patients and inform doctors about cross-cultural medicine and special problems such as displacement and war-related trauma.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
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Year: 1997
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Four costliest outpatient procedures
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Statistical information on four outpatient procedures is presented. The four procedures are cataract extraction with lens insertion, left cardiac catheterization, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with biopsy, and diagnostic colonoscopy. The average charge for the cataract procedure is $3,120. The average payment for the procedure is $1,477, and its average total cost is $1,741.
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