12/04/2025
After years away from her homeland in Liberia, Georgia Nuahn, RN '19 didn't expect to run into a patient speaking her Gio dialect in her first few weeks at BMC– but sure enough, she did! 💙
While helping a hesitant older patient, she recognized the woman’s language immediately. When Georgia spoke to her in their shared dialect the patient’s demeanor transformed. “Being in the hospital, being sick, and just seeing someone that speaks like you and looks like you - right then and there is a healing in and of itself.”
When a healthcare workforce mirrors the patient population it serves, health outcomes improve, and inequity is abated. This is why Massachusetts needs multilingual nurses. 🩺