{"id":633,"date":"2006-10-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/south-austin-hosp-wins-2006-communication-advocate-award\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T11:39:55","slug":"south-austin-hosp-wins-2006-communication-advocate-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/south-austin-hosp-wins-2006-communication-advocate-award\/","title":{"rendered":"South Austin Hosp Wins 2006 Communication Advocate Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"archived_message_body\">\n<p>CSD is proud to announce the presentation of the 2006 Communication Advocate Awards. These awards were presented at the Austin Association of the Deaf&#8217;s 60th Anniversary and during TSD Alumni Association&#8217;s Hall of Fame Award Ceremony Friday, October 6, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Business &#8211; Communication Advocate &#8211;<strong><font color=\"#0000ff\"> St. David&#8217;s South Austin Hospital<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deafnetwork.com\/file\/stdavid_south_austin_hospital.jpg?resize=276%2C207\" width=\"276\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Person Accepting Award: <strong>Laura Balla, Regional Director of Marketing and Public Relations <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consistently accommodating the emergency, short term and long term communication needs of patients who are Deaf, and the medical personnel that support them, at South Austin Hospital through the provision of Sign Language Interpreters for many, many years <\/p>\n<p>Working to improve the quality of interpreters provided, improve the response time and address the need to provide communication access as quickly as possible within the hospital setting <\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the positive impact that providing communication access in a timely fashion has on the overall health of patients who are deaf and lowering the stress involved for all parties when addressing healthcare needs of patients who are deaf<\/p>\n<p>CSD<br \/>Communication Services for the Deaf<br \/>Interpreting Services in Central Texas<br \/><a href=\"mailto:txinterp@c-s-d.org\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">txinterp@c-s-d.org<\/font><\/a>&nbsp; 512-837-8030 <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe or unsubscribe, just follow the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.deafnetwork.com\/\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">http:\/\/newsletter.deafnetwork.com<\/font><\/a> and enter your email address. <\/p>\n<p>Get your own Sidekick2 at Garth Wireless today: Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthwireless.com\/\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\">http:\/\/www.garthwireless.com<\/font><\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>BETTER IP RELAY &#8211; EVERYWHERE! i711.com makes all your relay calls better. 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These awards were presented at the Austin Association of the Deaf&#8217;s 60th Anniversary and during TSD Alumni Association&#8217;s Hall of Fame Award Ceremony Friday, October 6, 2006.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/south-austin-hosp-wins-2006-communication-advocate-award\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":632,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/arc-wins-2006-communication-advocate-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":633,"position":0},"title":"ARC Wins 2006 Communication Advocate Award","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"October 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"CSD is proud to announce the presentation of the 2006 Communication Advocate Awards.\u00a0 These awards were presented at the Austin Association of the Deaf's 60th Anniversary and during TSD Alumni Association's Hall of Fame Award Ceremony Friday, October 6, 2006.\u00a0 Business - Communication Advocate - Austin Regional Clinic Person Accepting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/category\/deaf-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deafnetwork.com\/file\/austin_regional_clinic.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":634,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/melissa-montoya-wins-award-for-advocacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":633,"position":1},"title":"Melissa Montoya Wins Award for Advocacy","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"October 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"CSD is proud to announce the presentation of the 2006 Communication Advocate Awards. 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