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Munson Healthcare

PRN Interpreter

Traverse City, MI

$69K/yr

That's life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan's largest healthcare system, with eight award ... Agrees to maintain required certification or qualifications for medical interpreting.

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How much do core certification healthcare interpreter jobs pay per year?

As of Sep 12, 2026, the average yearly pay for core certification healthcare interpreter in the United States is $64,020.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $50,000.00 and $69,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter?

Core Certification Healthcare Interpreters are professionals who have earned the Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter™ (CCHI) credential, demonstrating their competency to interpret accurately and ethically in healthcare settings. They facilitate communication between patients with limited English proficiency and healthcare providers, ensuring that language barriers do not compromise patient care. The certification is nationally recognized and requires candidates to pass a rigorous exam assessing their knowledge of medical terminology, interpreting skills, and ethical standards. Certified interpreters play a crucial role in improving healthcare outcomes and patient safety.

What skills and qualifications are needed to thrive as a Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter?

To thrive as a Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter, you need fluency in at least two languages, a deep understanding of medical terminology, and a CCHI Core Certification. Familiarity with interpretation protocols, video or phone interpreting platforms, and confidentiality standards is crucial. Strong active listening, cultural competence, and the ability to remain impartial are standout soft skills in this role. These skills and qualities are vital to ensure accurate communication, patient safety, and trust between healthcare providers and patients with limited English proficiency.

What opportunities for professional growth can a Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter expect within healthcare organizations?

Core Certification Healthcare Interpreters often find a variety of advancement opportunities as they gain experience. Many interpreters move into lead or supervisory interpreter roles, become trainers for new staff, or specialize in particular medical fields such as mental health or oncology. Some also transition into roles involving policy development, language access coordination, or quality assurance. Ongoing education and additional certifications can further enhance career prospects and allow interpreters to take on more complex assignments or leadership positions.

What is the difference between Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter vs Medical Interpreter?

AspectCore Certification Healthcare InterpreterMedical Interpreter
CertificationsRequires the Core Certification for Healthcare Interpreters from CCHI or NBIAHCMay hold similar certifications but not necessarily the Core Certification
Work EnvironmentHospitals, clinics, healthcare settingsVaries; healthcare, legal, social services
Employer & IndustryHealthcare providers, hospitals, clinicsHealthcare, legal, social services
Search & Comparison IntentYesOften compared with Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter

The Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter is specifically certified to work in healthcare settings, ensuring compliance with industry standards. Medical Interpreter is a broader term that may include uncertified or differently certified interpreters working across various settings. The Core Certification emphasizes specialized healthcare knowledge, making it the preferred credential for healthcare interpreting roles.

How to become a certified healthcare interpreter?

To become a certified healthcare interpreter, individuals typically need to complete a training program in medical interpreting, demonstrate proficiency in both languages, and pass a certification exam such as the Certified Healthcare Interpreter (CHI) or National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters (NBCMI). Certification requirements may vary by organization and state, and maintaining certification often involves ongoing education and re-certification exams.
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Interpreter Chinese - Onsite position

West Columbia, SC • On-site

Lexington Medical Center
Health Care and Social Assistance • 5 - 10K employees
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Full-time, Part-time

Medical, Dental, Life, Retirement

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Lexington Medical Center rating

6.8

Company rating: 6.8 out of 10

Based on 106 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

Job description

Interpreter Services
Part Time
Rotating
day
Sign-On Bonus: 2,500.00
Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.
Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state's first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer's care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.
Job Summary
A Spoken Language Interpreter is an employee of Lexington Medical Center who facilitates communication of spoken messages between LEP patients and visitors and LMC staff and providers. An interpreter combines the ability to facilitate understanding with both cultural and linguistic barriers while adhering to the role of the interpreter. An interpreter provides sight-translation of appropriate materials as admissible according to the conventions of medical interpreting to enhance patients' and families' comprehension of medical procedures, treatment, discharge instructions, patient and family education, and follow-up care.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 Year of experience as a medical interpreter
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Nationally certified at the time of hire or must obtain certification within the first year of employment (Spoken Language Interpreters must be nationally certified through the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)
Required Training: Must complete or have completed Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter specific proficiency testing and training upon hire.
Essential Functions
  • Demonstrate outstanding listening, analytical and short-term memory skills.
  • Demonstrate excellent language skills in both English and another language.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of ethical and professional codes of conduct covering confidentiality, informed consent and privacy.
  • Provides interpretation services effectively, with accuracy of meaning through the use of medical, business, and general terminology. The communication triad may include, but is not limited to, interpretation for patients, family members, visitors, LEP employees of LMC, and any person providing care or treatment on behalf of LMC and its affiliates.
  • Follows the guidelines of the National Council on Interpreting in Healthcare (NCIHC).

Duties & Responsibilities
  • Provides sight-translation when needed and appropriate of pertinent materials for patients and families.
  • Serves as a cultural mediator, as necessary and when appropriate, to enhance communication between staff and patients or family members.
  • Monitors language and interpreting skills, takes initiative to maintain and improve as necessary and stays abreast of linguistic meanings and regional variances of both languages.
  • Participates in Continuing Education opportunities to maintain certification.
  • Monitors, accepts and responds to requests through ServiceHub.
  • Culturally sensitive and able to adapt to adverse situations, handle high pressure or emotionally intense scenarios.
  • Able to travel to other LMC facilities.
  • Performs all other duties as assigned.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:
  • Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
  • Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
  • Employer paid life insurance - equal to 1x salary
  • Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
  • Adoption assistance
  • LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.

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