Healthcare is in LSA's DNA.
Language Services Associates (LSA) is one of the nation’s leaders in healthcare language support and health equity. Every minute of every day, LSA supports the leading healthcare systems, private practices, and rural and community-based care centers. With customizable video, audio, in-person, and translation solutions, LSA elevates your patient experience, reduces treatment risks, and expands your local footprint.
Elevating Your Patient Experience is Our Top Priority.
LSA helps your patients and providers succeed, reducing treatment errors and improving health outcomes.
Our cutting-edge technology, availability in Epic, robust compliance program, and proven experience help healthcare facilities improve HCAHPS scores and meet Joint Commission standards. As thought leaders in the industry, we have the tools you need to improve health equity by bridging language gaps and improving your language access program.
Language services can raise your patients’ comfort levels and improve customer satisfaction rates. LSA helps your patients and providers succeed, while also reducing treatment errors.
Improved communications with patients can significantly reduce readmission rates, decrease the overall cost of care, increase staff productivity, and help mitigate litigation risks.
LSA’s interpreter network and quality assurance safeguards your organization's compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, CMS, and Joint Commission regulations.
Medically qualified interpreters can help your organization promote inclusivity and community engagement.
OPTIONS THAT MEET YOUR NEEDS.
Over the Phone interpretation
Hundreds of languages available for on-demand over the phone interpretation or scheduled sessions, 24/7/365.
Video Remote interpretation
Facilitate video communication on any computer, tablet, or smartphone. LSA has the capacity to integrate seamlessly with all major platforms for virtual meetings and web conferences.
Onsite interpretation
LSA’s onsite interpreters have sector-specific experience to help you effectively communicate with diverse communities for meetings, recorded statements, and any interaction that needs an interpreter present.
Telehealth Solutions
LSA’s Telehealth services enable healthcare providers to seamlessly add interpreters to virtual medical sessions and provide quality care to patients of all languages. Our API allows for easy integration with your existing platform.
Machine Translation+
Fast, cost-effective translations enhanced by a human post-editor.
AI Video Dubbing
Customized video content for diverse audiences. The process combines automated translation, synchronization, and expert human editing to ensure high-quality results.
Translation & localization
LSA’s highly qualified translation team can provide the efficient translation and localization of any documents, including contracts, disclosures, website content, apps, and more.
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
At LSA, our Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and State-certified ASL interpreters are ready to help you serve your Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) communities — onsite and virtually.
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS & TESTING
Ensure your bilingual staff have the necessary skills to provide meaningful communication with your LEP customers.
WORK WITH HIGHLY QUALIFIED MEDICAL INTERPRETERS.
The healthcare industry is complex. That’s why LSA’s medical interpreters must pass a rigorous healthcare interpreting assessment before being accepted into our network. Many of our interpreters hold national and state certifications from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) and the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters (NBCMI). All ASL interpreters are RID certified. We support over 230 languages, including American Sign Language (ASL).
WHY CHOOSE
LSA?
As a top language services provider in the healthcare industry, LSA understands the challenges healthcare professionals and patients face every day. Our services are designed to make your job less complicated, so you can focus on providing the best care possible.
LSA has the scalability to meet fluctuations in volume and add new languages to meet your needs. We can integrate with the platform of your choosing.
LSA has delivered on-demand, customized services for over three decades. Our experience has earned us membership in some of the largest group purchasing organizations (GPO). This allows us to offer streamlined procurement processes and competitive pricing.
LSA’s combination of skilled interpreters and cutting-edge technology helps you avoid miscommunications and the adverse outcomes they produce.
LSA remains focused on keeping your information confidential and your network safe. Our state-of-the-art technology helps ensure that we provide all clients with world-leading protection.
COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR PREFERRED PLATFORM.
Switching language services providers doesn’t have to be complex or burdensome. LSA’s language services work across a variety of platforms — including yours.
Case Studies.
Healthcare
How LSA Helped Holy Cross Health Bridge Language Gaps & Achieve Patient Equity
Who is the client? Holy Cross Health is a healthcare facility located in Silver Spring, MD. Industry. Healthcare Services Provided. Over the Phone Interpretation Video
Healthcare, Insurance
How LSA Helped Optimize Customer Support & Improve Services During Peak Times
Who is the client? The Client is one of the largest health insurers in the US, delivering a comprehensive range of services. They offer medical,
Healthcare, Insurance
How LSA Helped Maximize CMS Star Ratings & Ensure Compliance
Who is the client? The Client is one of the largest health insurers in the US, delivering a comprehensive range of services. They offer medical,
OUR GPO Partners.
We’re proud to be the language service partner of choice for leading healthcare organizations.
What our HEALTHCARE CLIENTS are saying about LSA.
The LSA partnership has been phenomenal. Whether it’s managing our day-to-day operations or contracts LSA goes above and beyond to meet our business needs. In addition, LSA stays abreast of changes in our market and is ready to pivot to accommodate those changes. With the LSA partnership we have been able to service over 15,000 language customers annually. The partnership with LSA has been so great that we went from onboarding 1 department to 12 as well as adding additional products.
Language Services Associates has been a reliable partner for many years for our in-person and virtual interpreting needs. LSA provides efficient systems, well-trained and responsive coordinators, and quality interpreters. They help us create an inclusive environment for our patients at every level of care, and in over 25 different languages.
Rayus Radiology has worked with LSA for several years, it has been a great partnership. Their offerings and services have grown and expanded with us as our business has. They have always been right there to assist with solutions and connect us with the latest technology to make the translation experience suit our needs as best as it can.
LSA has been a preferred partner over the years. In our business, it is essential that we communicate with our customers effectively and LSA allows us to do so in any language.
Our program has utilized LSA for the over five years and it has been a tremendous asset to the families and providers we serve. Whether having documents and applications translated, securing a LIVE translator for virtual meetings and/or having an Interpreter on the line for a frantic parent seeking services. We really enjoy access to the LSA Web portal which makes obtaining services a smooth process and keeps us up to date on services used daily, monthly and yearly. LSA has been time efficient and accommodating to the growing needs of our program.
Our medical practice has used LSA for several years, and we have been pleased with their service from day 1. LSA is the best!!! We use them several times a week. We are always able to get a phone interpreter quickly and it is so easy to go online and request an in-person interpreter. Customer service is quick with resolving issues. LSA is professional and the interpreters are very knowledgeable and professional!!!
CompSpec have been partners with Language Services Associates since 2006 for our telephonic and translation needs. LSA is a reliable resource for us for our language service program. We truly appreciate the assistance provided by our dedicated account manager, Ashley Butler. She has provided us with training tools for our staff, robust reporting, industry trends and more. We appreciate the level of communication and attention that is afforded to us. What impressed us the most is the continued high level of customer service Ashley, and her team has provided for us throughout the years. Language Services Associates is a true partner.
I have had the pleasure of working with Molly and her colleagues over the past several years. The jobs have spanned many of my clients/brands and have been on a variety of asset types. We are always confident that the LSA team will deliver accurate translations and quality updated design layouts. My clients have been very pleased with the end results. We always turn to LSA first when we have new translation requests and value their partnership on the jobs.
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Language Services Associates for the past 10 years.
The team we work with is professional, communicative, honest, and always keeps us informed.
They are responsive and finish projects on time, every time.
Furthermore, their translations are accurate, and our consumers appreciate that we can cater to their needs so specifically.
Language Services has been very easy to work with. LS provides our hospital with many options to help improve communication with our multi-cultural community.
Einstein Health Network and Language Services Associates have been partners for language interpretation since 2008 for telephonic and on-site interpreting. With the large number of languages available, over 230 languages, LSA can provide support to EHN for the very diverse population that walk through our doors. Einstein Health Network continues to be impressed with the level of attention and customer service offered by LSA
Since 2008, LSA has played an integral part of RUSH Interpreter Services. In addition to their exceptional language services, LSA’s client support team has been consistently attentive and accommodating. They are always ready to address any concerns or inquiries promptly.
Our recruiting team for production has been working with LSA for a over a year and have had a great experience with their translation services. When our relationship started with LSA, we met with a team who listened to our needs, what we wanted to do & what was important to us. It was great to work with a team of professionals who patiently explained the process, specific guidelines on what they needed from us to best support our translation needs. We had large projects in the beginning, but the turnaround time was incredible. Even now with our smaller projects, the quality and work continues to be of high caliber, so the consistency of good work continues to be the same. We highly recommend this company.
Excellent Customer Service: LSA is extremely knowledgeable, courteous, and dependable. We have always received prompt and efficient service from their entire team. We could not be happier with their level of commitment and dedication to all projects large and small.
Our company has had a very long-standing relationship with LSA. We started when we were a small physical therapy company with less than 100 clinics, and now have a contract that includes 1200 clinics and growing, after merging into a larger out-patient system that serves 27 states. Our clinics utilize a wide range of services—telephone, on-demand video, scheduled video, and face-to-face interpreter services, and we have had very few issues. Any issue we have encountered has been promptly and thoroughly investigated and addressed by our Account Manager and the Client Experience Team. The Team at LSA will provide “large-company service” with a “small-company feel.
Working with LSA has been a positive experience over the past 5 years of having their services tailored to our particular needs from clinical coverage for face-to-face interpreters, coordinating virtual interpreters for languages of lesser diffusion, and being essential in helping us create a bilingual staff assessment for our clinical team members. They’re network of interpreters have helped us meet some of our local talent for language services in the area that we would have not otherwise met. Our account managers have consistently checked in on us to make sure that our satisfaction was prioritized, and if there were any gaps in our operations that they felt they could develop, they would commit, communicate, and innovate. Service represents the company’s values which is success, communication, and development.
My experience with LSA has been awesome; from the promptness of the LSA team with all types of concerns to the comprehensive usage of the product. LSA offers so much more but the most significant attribute is the professionalism and friendliness of the LSA team. LSA really makes my job as an ADA coordinator easier.
