by KRISTA ALMANZAN Immigrants from Mexico don’t always speak Spanish. Instead they speak indigenous languages. That’s created huge communications problems, but a hospital in Salinas has found a solution. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Salinas, California is

April 1, 2014 At Natividad Medical Foundation’s Annual Meeting Celebration, The Agricultural Leadership Council presented the foundation with a $350,000 check, bringing TALC’s total contributions to date to $1,172,550. “TALC is proud to

KAZU – March 27, 2014 By KRISTA ALMANZAN Natividad Medical Center in Salinas is seeing a growing number of patients who only speak indigenous languages from Mexico and Central America. The hospital’s solution is an indigenous interpreting program

by Rand Green | March 11, 2014 At its annual meeting in Salinas, CA, March 6, Navidad Medical Foundation honored Watsonville, CA-based Driscoll Strawberry Associates and the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, J. Miles Reiter,

 March 7, 2014 By Mike Hornick SALINAS, Calif. — Natividad Medical Foundation honored Driscoll’s chairman and chief executive officer Miles Reiter with its Hero Award for his company’s support of language interpretation and related

March 7, 2014 By Dennis L. Taylor Imagine traveling in Oaxaca and suddenly you are gripped by chest pains and gasping for air. A friend drives you to an emergency room where a doctor speaks a tongue not even your Spanish-speaking friend understands. Fear and

Natividad hospital program connects with Salinas’ indigenous community By CLAUDIA MELÉNDEZ SALINAS Herald Staff Writer It began about five years ago, when Angélica Isidro of Greenfield was asked by neighbors to translate medical

From the Salinas Californian   SALINAS,CA – January 29, 2014 Natividad Medical Center on Tuesday received the final go-ahead from elected officials to begin building Monterey County’s first official trauma center during a meeting that grew

Financial questions remain By JIM JOHNSON  Monterey County Herald   January 28, 2014 – After impassioned pleas from Natividad Medical Center supporters, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to support the

Sara Rubin Monterey County Weekly   January 28, 2014 – Disregard the blood and guts and shock that come with traumatic injuries, and for a moment, Natividad Medical Center CEO Harry Weis makes it sound like running a trauma center is kind of like a