National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of clinical encounters where interpreters wait less than 15 minutes to provide interpreter services to provider and patient.

Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services


1. Language services: the percent of clinical encounters where interpreters wait less than 15 minutes to provide interpreter services to provider and patient.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of clinical encounters where interpreters wait less than 15 minutes to provide interpreter services to provider and patient.


2. Language services: the percent of encounters where the wait time for an interpreter is 15 minutes or less.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of encounters where the wait time for an interpreter is 15 minutes or less.


3. Language services: the percent of limited English-proficient (LEP) patients receiving both initial assessment and discharge instructions supported by assessed and trained interpreters or from bilingual providers and bilingual workers/employees assessed for language proficiency.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of limited English-proficient (LEP) patients receiving both initial assessment and discharge instructions supported by assessed and trained interpreters or from bilingual providers and bilingual workers/employees assessed for language proficiency.


4. Language services: the percent of patient visits and admissions where preferred spoken language for health care is screened and recorded.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of patient visits and admissions where preferred spoken language for health care is screened and recorded.


5. Language services: the percent of patient visits and admissions where preferred written language for health care is screened and recorded.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of patient visits and admissions where preferred written language for health care is screened and recorded.



6. Language services: the percent of work time interpreters spend providing interpretation in clinical encounters with patients and providers.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse | Language services: the percent of work time interpreters spend providing interpretation in clinical encounters with patients and providers.