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Demand for bilingual Spanish health care services is growing — can Utah keep up?
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. When social worker Jules Martinez met one teen client, it seemed like the boy had given up: he’d dropped out of school, started selling drugs and stopped speaking with his mother. He’d been hospitalized multiple times for aggression and suicidal ideation and, as it later came out, was developing schizophrenia. The teen and his mother, like a number of Hispanic Utahns, struggled to find health care that took into account their language, cultural background and ...
