LCMC providing translation services at mass vaccination site - WDSU New Orleans - Translation

LCMC has hired translators to staff its mass vaccination site at the convention center in New Orleans.TNOLA Languages provides the services and applauded the health care system for trying to improve access to the vaccine for all residents."We’re really appreciative of them taking efforts from the start to make sure that they had language access services being provided here on-site to ensure that all folks, regardless of their preferred language, can get access to the vaccine," said Andrew Dafoe, with TNOLA Languages.On Monday, the convention center extended its hours until 8 p.m. to encourage people who work and specifically, the Hispanic community, to get vaccinated. Dafoe helped several people navigate the process.He said he is thankful for the work after the coronavirus changed how his business operates."We had, by in large, been doing onsite interpretive services," Dafoe said. "About 95% of those kind of vanished overnight last March."Dafoe hopes for similar opportunities in the future."We’re excited to see events like this and be a part of events like this because hopefully, it means that we’re getting back to some more of that onsite work, conferences, larger events, that sort of thing," Dafoe said.

NEW ORLEANS —

LCMC has hired translators to staff its mass vaccination site at the convention center in New Orleans.

TNOLA Languages provides the services and applauded the health care system for trying to improve access to the vaccine for all residents.

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"We’re really appreciative of them taking efforts from the start to make sure that they had language access services being provided here on-site to ensure that all folks, regardless of their preferred language, can get access to the vaccine," said Andrew Dafoe, with TNOLA Languages.

On Monday, the convention center extended its hours until 8 p.m. to encourage people who work and specifically, the Hispanic community, to get vaccinated.

Dafoe helped several people navigate the process.

He said he is thankful for the work after the coronavirus changed how his business operates.

"We had, by in large, been doing onsite interpretive services," Dafoe said. "About 95% of those kind of vanished overnight last March."

Dafoe hopes for similar opportunities in the future.

"We’re excited to see events like this and be a part of events like this because hopefully, it means that we’re getting back to some more of that onsite work, conferences, larger events, that sort of thing," Dafoe said.