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Best Practices
Universal Health Care Symbols Implementation Project
Developing Best Practice Standards for Universal Health Care Symbols: Supporting Implementation in Innovator Health Facilities
With second phase funding from RWJF’s Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas and projects that may lead to important breakthroughs in the future of health and health care Hablamos Juntos, in an ongoing partnership with the Society for Environmental and Graphic Design (SEGD), has launched an initiative, aimed at encouraging widespread adoption of Universal Health Care symbols by health facilities serving populations unable to read or with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Through an RFA, Hablamos Juntos Signs That Work (STW) initiative seeks to identify four health facilities ready to implement symbols based signage. A team of leading national experts in symbols and wayfinding signage will support selected facilities with technical assistance and evaluation support for development of award-winning wayfinding programs using graphic symbols. Facilities selected will be rewarded with recognition as innovator sites with best practice application of symbols as a practical solution in health care signage for multilingual and literacy challenged populations.
Request For Application (RFA)
The RFA seeking Innovator Health Facilities to implement symbol-based signage is now closed. Check back for information about the four innovator facilities selected. Selected facilities will be announced in September.
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Implementation is also supported by the development and testing of additional symbols needed to complete wayfinding systems in selected facilities.