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Select Health of South Carolina is committed to promoting education and awareness of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services as well as of low health literacy and its impact on the health status of our members. For information about free CLAS and/or health literacy training opportunities, please contact Jill Lemay, Cultural Competency Coordinator at 843.529.5218.
- Think Cultural Health is a website sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in healthcare. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
- DiversityRx offers free online training that covers various cultural competency topics such as: health literacy, translation best practices,NCQA standards as well as language and culture.
- South Central Public Health Partnership offers various online diversity and cultural competency trainings: Diversity and Cultural Competency in Public Health Settings, Diversity Leadership: A Strategic Approach and Managing Diversity Begins With You.
- Polygot Systems sponsors a series of online events designed to increase awareness of the impact language barriers have within healthcare.
- Hablamos Juntos (We Speak Together) is a unique project designed to forge connections between health care providers and the rapidly growing Latino population. It works to improve communication between health care providers and Latino patients and eliminate language barriers that can lead to medical errors and compromise the quality of care.
- Unified Health Communication (UHC): addresses health literacy, cultural competency and limited english proficiency with free, online, go-at-your-own-pace training that has helped more than 4,000 healthcare professionals and students improve patient-provider communication.
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