Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 950 - OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, OFFICE OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION › Division 50 - STANDARDS FOR HEALTH CARE INTERPRETER REGISTRY ENROLLMENT AND REQUIREMENTS TO WORK WITH QUALIFIED OR CERTIFIED HEALTH CARE INTERPRETERS › Section 950-050-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in chapter 950, division 50 the following definitions
				apply:
(1) "Applicant" means any
			 individual who applies for qualification or certification as a health care
			 interpreter under OAR 950-050-0050.
(2) "Authority" means the Oregon Health
			 Authority.
(3) "Central registry"
			 means the record maintained by the Authority of enrolled individuals recognized
			 as approved certified or qualified health care interpreters.
(4) "Certified health care interpreter" means
			 an individual who has been approved by the Oregon Health Authority and issued a
			 valid letter of certification by the Authority under these rules to perform
			 health care interpreting services as outlined under ORS
			 413.558.
(5) "Coordinated Care Organization (CCO)"
			 means a corporation, governmental agency, public corporation, or other legal
			 entity that is certified as meeting the criteria adopted by the Authority under
			 ORS 414.625 to be accountable for
			 care management and to provide integrated and coordinated health care for each
			 of the organization's members.
(6)
			 "Formal training" means instruction obtained in an academic setting, seminars,
			 in-service instruction, or by other means of substantive learning.
(7) "Health care" means medical, oral,
			 vision, surgical or hospital care or any other remedial care recognized by
			 state law, including physical and behavioral health care. For the purpose of
			 these rules, "health care" does not currently include assistance with the
			 activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living by
			 providers. The Authority will monitor the exclusion of these services and make
			 a determination on continuing this exception no later than July 1,
			 2025.
(8) "Health care interpreter"
			 means an individual who has proficiency in English and at least one other
			 spoken or signed language and who is readily able to accurately:
(a) Communicate in English and communicate
			 with a person who has limited English proficiency or who communicates in signed
			 language. Under limited circumstances beginning September 1, 2022, the
			 Authority may qualify an individual who has proficiency in a language of lesser
			 diffusion and at least one other spoken or signed language other than English,
			 as a health care interpreter;
(b)
			 Interpret the oral statements of a person with limited English proficiency, or
			 the statements of a person who communicates in signed language, into English or
			 another language if relay interpreting;
(c) Interpret oral statements in English, or
			 another language if relay interpreting, to a person with limited English
			 proficiency or who communicates in signed language;
(d) Sight translate simple written documents
			 for a person with limited English proficiency; and
(e) Effective September 1, 2022, provide
			 interpretive services using relay or indirect interpretation.