Health Practitioner Resources:
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

The LACDHS offers Language Identification Posters for use in health care facitilites, with a Point-to-Card.
The 22” x 27” poster announces “You have the right to an interpreter at no cost to you. Ask the front desk” in 23 different languages. After reading the poster, patients who need language assistance go to the reception desk where a second sign, the Point-To card asks patients to indicate their language and an appropriate bilingual staff will be contacted. Office staff responds according to an established Language Service Plan.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency, Federal Register, August 16, 2000.


Report to Congress. Assessment of the Total Benefits and Costs of Implementing Executive Order No. 13166, March 14, 2002