Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To see our full nondiscrimination statement, click here.

Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Interpreter Services

617.414.5549

Select your language:

If you need an interpreter for your BMC visit, please tell your healthcare provider. They will make sure that there’s an interpreter available for your time at BMC.

Boston Medical Center’s Interpreter Services Department is one of the oldest interpreter services programs in New England. Our department works to ensure making sure that all patients who speak a language other than English or are deaf or hard of hearing can get all the care they need in their own language.

We provide qualified medical interpretation to patients and families who want to receive health care information in a language other than English, including American Sign Language.

Interpreters are available free of charge 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For deaf and hard of hearing patients we have TTYs and assistive listening devices available upon request.

Interpreters are available in person, over the phone, and on video to ensure access to more than 150 languages spoken by our patient population, including interpretation for the top 14 languages our patients speak:

  • Spanish
  • Haitian Creole
  • Portuguese
  • Cape Verdean Creole
  • Vietnamese
  • Arabic
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • French
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese
  • Somali
  • Tigrinya
  • American Sign Language  

Please do not bring anyone to interpret for you or use family members for medical interpretation, as this is not allowed under federal law.

BMC also provides written health information in a variety of languages, including after visit summaries, as well as MyChart, our patient portal, in Spanish.

Office Information

Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Yawkey Building 
850 Harrison Ave. 
Basement, Room BN-38 
Boston, MA 02118

For more information, call Interpreter Services Department at 617-414-5549.