IMIA is proud to announce the appointment of our new Provider Division Chair, Marlene V. Obermeyer.  To contact Marlene, please email mvobermeyer@yahoo.com.

We are happy to have a contingency of health care providers who have joined our mission to provide professional intepreting services to all patients who need these services. We are hoping to get more members who can give us the provider perspective, and work collaboratively with us in better serving these patients.

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Provider Survey

Please consider providing us with your input using our PROVIDER SURVEY. We value your feedback, and would be grateful if you took the time to respond to our survey questions in an effort to better understand your needs and to provide us with invaluable insight that will be most useful to our work.

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Who are we?
Healthcare Providers who advocate working only with trained professional medical interpreters and represent the medical interpretation profession among our healthcare provider colleagues.
 
What is our mission?
- To create, develop and establish a strong alliance between healthcare providers and trained professional medical interpreters.
- Emphasize the importance of trained professional medical interpreters in the healthcare setting.
 
How do we do it?
- We as healthcare providers are clear about our expectations to trained professional medical interpreters.
- We understand their needs and they understand ours.
- We present our point of view and respect theirs.
- We work out mutually beneficial solutions.
- We combine their needs and our abilities, abiding by the "IMIA Standards of Practice".
 
What do we achieve?
- Mutual Respect.
- Comprehensive professional partnership.
- Healthy environment beneficial to the treatment and care of our patients.
- Positive recognition for our service.

If you have questions about this division please contact Anita Diabate at Provider Outreach Email

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2007 IMIA Provider Survey Results
http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=OuBmrHPVhbH6%2f9s40zKr5HHXXjo9m9xamY6tJF4Y5hE%3d


Transcultural Nursing Society
www.tcns.org