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Here is some sample content from Interpreter Services and Protected Health Information:

	POLICY: Hospital will utilize translators to assist non-English speaking patient's and their families' understanding of the care, treatment and services provided by this organization. Hospital will also provide sign language and oral interpreters for those patients who are deaf or hard of hearing. PROCEDURE: Hospital, when using interpreter services, shall use and disclose protected health information regarding an individual without an individual's authorization as a healthcare operation, in accordance with the Privacy Rule, in the following ways: When the interpreter is a member of...
Second excerpt:
	...other person identified by the patient as his/her interpreter while hospitalized, Hospital may, without the patient's authorization, use or disclose protected health information. As with other disclosures to family members, friends or other persons identified by the patient as involved in his or her care, when the patient is present, the hospital may obtain the patient's agreement or reasonably infer, based on the exercise of professional judgment, that the patient does not object to the...