To maintain high quality of care for its patients, Garfield Medical Center is committed to continuously building and maintaining a linguistically competent and culturally sensitive professional staff that meets the various needs of the multi-cultural San Gabriel Valley community. Garfield Medical Center boasts physicians, nurses, technologists, and volunteers who are proficient in many different languages. Garfield Medical Center offers interpretation assistance for languages that may include the following:

Arabic Cantonese Chiu-Chow French Hindu Italian German Thai Vietnamese

Japanese Korean Mandarin Spanish Tagalog Taiwanese

A patient can request language interpretation assistance through the charge nurse of each department. In the event that a particular language interpreter at Garfield Medical Center is not readily available, Garfield Medical Center has contracted with AT&T Language Line Service® to provide additional language interpretation assistance.

For more information about the foreign language interpretation service at Garfield Medical Center, please call human resource at (626) 307-2050.