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Resources

Martha Jefferson Hospital offers a number of resources to meet the community needs. From libraries to interpreters to important health-related forms, we offer you the information and services that help you make better decisions regarding your health.

Libraries

Cancer Resource Center

The Cancer Resource Center is more than a repository for information. The center offers books, pamphlets and videos concerning cancer in its various forms, and the center has more: experienced, certified, oncology nurses who can help direct those who seek information but also help allay unfounded fears. The Cancer Resource Center is free and available to anyone in the community with a question about cancer. You may contact the Cancer Resource Center at (434) 654-8401.

HealthSource Library

The HealthSource Library can provide free and individualized service to you from our authoritative medical resources. The Library resources include:

  • Printed texts and journals written for the layman, nurse or physician
  • Computer databases
  • Interlibrary loan

You can receive information from the HealthSource Library by doing one of the following:


Trained volunteer staff will provide a prompt response to your request. Confidentiality will always be respected. On select mornings, volunteer staff is available to assist you with your library needs on a walk in basis.

Additional Resources:

Medicine Plus (U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Senior Navigator, a national model for aging and disability resources.

Interpreters

Martha Jefferson respects the individual's right to and need for effective communication. To meet the communication needs of all individuals, Martha Jefferson offers language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) as well as those with disabilities that necessitate the need for interpreter services.

To ensure that individuals with LEP or other communication barriers can effectively access services, appropriate Language Assistance will be provided:

  • Vital documents that are routinely provided to individuals in the English language are made available in other regularly encountered languages, as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Other language needs are handled by reading the document with an interpreter service or person. Bilingual Martha Jefferson employees, volunteers or a contracted telephone language interpreter service is made available. Only these approved interpreter resources are used to provide interpretation. Martha Jefferson does not encourage the use of family members or friends for the purpose of interpretation of healthcare information due to issues of unmonitored confidentiality, HIPAA and familiarity with medical terminology. A family member or friend will only be used as an interpreter at the documented request of the individual patient; and only if the patient's privacy or medical care will not be jeopardized as a result. Use of minor children as interpreters is prohibited even in circumstances where this is the patient's preference.
  • No individuals are excluded from participation in, denied benefits of, or subject to discrimination under any program or activity as a result of LEP or other barriers to effective communication.
  • Language Assistance is provided at no cost to the patient.
  • Assistance will be determined on a case by case basis ensuring that individuals with communication barriers receive adequate information, are able to understand the services and can effectively communicate the relevant circumstances of his or her situation.

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Forms

We believe it is our responsibility to educate the community about health-related issues and to help prepare you for your future medical care. We wish to ensure every patient has the following information at their disposal:

  • We can't respect your choices for future medical care unless we know what they are. Find out more about Advanced Directives and complete the downloadable form to ensure that we can honor your right to make decisions about your treatment.
  • Medications. We all take them. And carrying a list of all the medicines you take may save your life. Learn the benefits of keeping a Personal Medicine List and keep a list of your own in your wallet.

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