Adventist Health Language Assistance Policy

Adventist Health complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate and will not exclude or treat people differently because of their ability to pay, age, color, creed, culture, disability, gender identity or expression, language, marital status, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender status, type of insurance, or veteran’s status, when delivering care, treatment, services and benefits for inpatients and outpatients, including assignments or transfers within the facility and referrals to or from the facility directly or through contractual or other arrangements.

Adventist Health provides free aids and services to people with disabilities to communicate effectively with us, such as:

Qualified sign language interpreters
Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)
Provides free language services to people whose primary language is not English, such as: Qualified interpreters
Information written in other languages

If you need these services, advise your caregiver.

If you believe that Adventist Health has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way, you can file a complaint with the entity where it occurred.

Contact your facility risk managerfor more information.

You have the option of filing a grievance with the state and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. If you need help filing a grievance, you maycontact your facility risk manager.

A civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, can be electronically filed through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available athttps://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 20201

(800) 368-1019,(800) 537-7697(TDD)

Complaint forms are available athttps://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.