Medical interpreters at Michigan Medicine Hospitals and Health Centers foster patient-centered care by delivering high quality, compassionate interpreting services in a timely and professional manner.
Patients have the right to a professional medical interpreter 24/7, at no charge.
Michigan Medicine provides trained professional medical interpreters for the patients who are Deaf, Deaf/Blind, or Hard of Hearing, or who are Limited English Proficient (LEP). Services are available, 24/7 in accordance with federal and state law and with regulatory requirements. Michigan Medicine also provides over-the-phone interpretation services when in-person medical interpreters are unavailable.
At Michigan Medicine, interpretation services are provided:
- In-person
- Over-the-phone
- Via video
American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters and other services for patients who are Deaf, Deaf/Blind, or Hard of Hearing are available free of charge, to ensure effective communication between staff, patients and patients’ families.
Patient Rights
| العربية (Arabic) | Shqip (Albanian) | বাংলা (Bengali) | 中文 (Chinese) |
| English | فارسی (Farsi) | Français (French) | Deutsch (German) |
| हिंदी (Hindi) | Italiano (Italian) | 日本語 (Japanese) | 한국어 (Korean) |
| Polski (Polish) | Русский (Russian) | Hrvatski/Srpski (Serbo-Croatian) | Español (Spanish) |
| ܣܘܼܪܸܬ݂ (Assyrian) | Tagalog (Tagalog) | Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) |
Patient Responsibilities
| العربية (Arabic) | Shqip (Albanian) | বাংলা (Bengali) | 中文 (Chinese) |
| English | فارسی (Farsi) | Français (French) | Deutsch (German) |
| हिंदी (Hindi) | Italiano (Italian) | 日本語 (Japanese) | 한국어 (Korean) |
| Polski (Polish) | Русский (Russian) | Serbo-Croatian | Español (Spanish) |
| ܣܘܼܪܸܬ݂ (Assyrian) | Tagalog (Tagalog) | Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) |
Contact
Interpreter Services at Michigan Medicine 2025 Traverwood Drive, Suite A4
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
(734) 936-7021
[email protected]
Administration office hours of operation are 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.