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Interpreter services
Children’s Minnesota offers free interpreter services for many languages to support patients and families. Please contact us at 612-813-7600 to request an interpreter.
Our services
Interpreter services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for patient families at Children’s Minnesota. Our services include:
- A wide range of spoken languages and American Sign Language (ASL).
- On-staff interpreters for Hmong, Karen, Somali and Spanish.
- Access to interpreters for other languages and professional ASL available upon request.
- Facilitating effective communication in health care across linguistic and cultural differences
- Consultation to the health care team and patient families on culturally specific values, beliefs, health practices and communication styles
- Sign language and video interpreters, TTYs (teletypwriters) and other services are available to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. — Please ask us for assistance or contact the deaf and hard of hearing communications coordinator at 612-813-5826 (voice/TTY)
Are you an interpreter?
If you are a new agency interpreter at Children’s Minnesota, you are required to read our orientation document, Interpreters’ Orientation to Children’s Minnesota, before interpreting for our patients and families.
