Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)

IT’s Time for CLAS 

GMCF offers a free Cultural Competency training for primary care physician offices serving Medicare beneficiaries. Participants include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and office managers.

Providers may receive the training either online on their own time or by participating in a one-day, group session.

The Cultural Competency Curriculum Modules are accredited for 9 Category-1 AMA CME credits.

Benefits of Cultural Competency training:

• Enhanced patient satisfaction and compliance
• Better risk management
• Improved provider-patient communication
• Fewer racial health disparities
• Improved health-care service delivery
• Decreased likelihood of litigation

Other Services include:

• A list of organizations providing linguistically appropriate health education materials and interpreter services
• Serve as an educational resource for the latest developments in cultural competency and efforts to reduce racial health disparities locally and nationally.
• Policies and procedures for incorporating cultural competency training into your staff orientation
• Instruments to assess cultural competency

gmcf… working with First-CLAS Physician Offices