Baystate Health Advances Language Access for the Health Care Proxy


Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Baystate Health, an Honoring Choices MA Community Partner, we can now provide a free downloadable Honoring Choices MA Health Care Proxy translated into Swahili and Nepali.

On behalf of Baystate Health, Tim Moriarty, MPA, CMI, CHI, Manager of Interpreter and Translation Services, offered to underwrite the cost of translation of a Swahili and Nepali Health Care Proxy to help adults in the Baystate Health community access linguistically appropriate documents for to improve culturally competent planning conversations. In partnering with Honoring Choices to translate the documents, we make the documents available all consumers and health care providers across the Commonwealth. We are very grateful for Baystate Health’s leadership to advance language access and help ensure every adult’s care choices are understood and honored.

The Honoring Choices MA Health Care Proxy is available in 12 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Haitian-Creole, Khmer, Albanian, Arabic, Swahili and Nepali.

Download here.