Cigna, Georgetown University Help Physicians Meet Patients’ Cultural, Language Needs
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The CLCHPA is designed to enhance the delivery of high quality services for diverse patient populations, and to promote cultural and linguistic competence to reduce health care disparities - which represent inequalities in the provision of health care and access to health care across different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups.
"There are few validated measures of cultural and linguistic competence for health care practitioners. The capacity to engage in self-assessment is an essential element of cultural and linguistic competence. The NCCC is pleased to offer this opportunity for self-reflection and growth to help practitioners meet the needs of their diverse patient populations," said
Cigna's
"In today's increasingly diverse world, cultural competency complements the physician's knowledge by ensuring effective communication," said
When doctors don't speak the same language as their patients, or are unfamiliar with their patients' cultures, poor health outcomes are more likely to occur, Payne explained. Problems may manifest themselves in any number of ways, from patients taking too much medication to not being able to manage a chronic disease like asthma to being hospitalized for a condition that may have been preventable.
Cigna, the first health plan to offer this assessment, has long recognized the importance of cultural competence in delivering health care. In fact, more than 28,000 Cigna employees have completed cultural competency training, and the
Additional cultural competency resources are available on the Cigna Health Care Professional website. About
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