Woman Claims Hospital Violated ACA, Ignored Requests For Interpreter

(April 16, 2019, 1:40 PM EDT) -- PHOENIX — A hospital staff discriminated against a deaf woman by lacking proper training on how to identify when a patient requires a live, in-person interpreter, violating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other statutes, the woman claims in a March 21 complaint filed in Arizona federal court (Ella Mae Hammack v. Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, et al., No. 19-1890, D. Ariz.)....

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