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Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 1 to the agreement (A-13375) with Cross-Cultural Communications, LLC for licensure of proprietary teaching and textbook materials for use in the training of NMC interpreters, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (December 15, 2021 through December 14, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of December 15, 2016 through December 14, 2022, and adding $6,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $36,000.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 1 to the agreement (A-13375) with Cross-Cultural Communications, LLC for licensure of proprietary teaching and textbook materials for use in the training of NMC interpreters, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (December 15, 2021 through December 14, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of December 15, 2016 through December 14, 2022, and adding $6,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $36,000.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
This agreement will allow NMC to purchase and use the vendor's proprietary teaching and training materials in the training of NMC's bilingual staff to become Qualified Interpreters (QI's) and allow Interpreter Services department to train some of its staff to become licensed trainers. With the implementation of the new language access rule of the ACA Section 1557 July 2016, our medical staff must be "qualified" as interpreters to assist providers with interpretation and not simply bilingual.
Presently, NMC has approximately 70 trained dual staff qualified interpreters (QI's) that perform interpretations as dual staff employees in their own departments. This compliment and maximizes resources of the Interpreter Services department at NMC, whose resources are limi...
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