Healthcare access

National
Health & Safety

Frustrated You Can't Find A Therapist? They're Frustrated, Too

10:57am July 14, 2016

by April Dembosky

Why is it so hard to connect people with therapists? Insurance bureaucracy cuts both ways, it turns out. Patients have trouble finding therapists in networks. And therapists have trouble joining them.

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Inyan Pedersen, 34, with her son Knowledge. Doctors scheduled Pedersen to deliver her two younger children by C-sections because the closest birthing center is two hours away.

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Health & Safety

For Native Americans, Health Care Is A Long, Hard Road Away

10:44am April 13, 2016

by Misha Friedman

For American Indians on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota, getting health care can take weeks. Indians who move to the city find that access can be difficult, too.

Argelia Zarate, a Mixteco interpreter at the Oxnard School District, encourages students to practice their native languages.

National
Health & Safety

Hospitals Struggle To Help Farmworkers Who Speak Triqui Or Mixteco

4:00pm September 29, 2015

by Jeremy Raff

One-third of farmworkers in California speak indigenous languages from southern Mexico. Many don't speak Spanish or English, a situation that poses challenges for health care providers.