When Language Becomes a Barrier to Health Care (Series, Part 4 of 6 with Barn Raiser)

Citation: Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. “When Language Becomes a Barrier to Health Care.” Barn Raiser, October 9, 2025. https://barnraisingmedia.com/when-language-becomes-a-barrier-to-health-care/.

Excerpt: “Adela’s experience illustrates a pervasive but often invisible form of health care exclusion: the systematic under-resourcing of language interpretation services that leaves non-English speaking immigrants navigating complex medical systems without adequate support. My decade of research on Maryland’s Eastern Shore also reveals that language barriers intersect with racial discrimination in ways that create dramatically unequal hierarchies of care for different immigrant communities.”