La Frontera Language Services

Health care services

La Frontera can translate Spanish into English or English into Spanish to help you communicate with patients, providers, regulators and insurers.

We also translate or edit clinical case studies and reports prior to submission to English-language professional journals.

Communicate with patients:

Translate consent forms, medical history questionnaires, treatment and discharge instructions, and informational brochures
Translate websites for clinical practices, businesses, and insurers
Translate Power Point presentations for patient education
Help you identify Spanish-language videos and PSAs for patient education
Provide Spanish-English vocabulary lists tailored to your practice
Produce bilingual patient newsletters

Communicate with providers:

Translate diagnostic reports and treatment recommendations for patients receiving treatment in another country (medical tourism)

Communicate with insurers:

Translate invoices and medical records for insurers or Social Security on behalf of patients who received care in a Spanish-speaking location

Communicate with readers or regulators:

Edit medical papers written by non-English speakers for publication in English-language journals
Translate clinical trial documentation for pharmaceutical testing

Past projects

Sample translation projects:

Documentation for disability and insurance claims
Hospice patient rights and responsibilities
Amniocentesis consent form
Newborn discharge teaching form
Pediatric admission form
Smoking survey
Radiology reports
Patient clinical history, physical exams, test results, procedures, and treatment orders
Articles on Alzheimer's research
Documentation for a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of a medication for dementia-related psychosis

Sample editing projects:

Case study about a pediatric patient with intermittent epistaxis
Subtitles for an informational video for a pharmaceutical company