Ervine v. Desert View Regional Medical Center Holdings, LLC

OPINION

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with claims under the Rehabilitation Act against health care providers for failure to communicate effectively with a person who is deaf.

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Charlene Ervine, who was deaf, died of cancer in November 2009. In the years before her death, she sought treatment at Desert View Regional Medical Center, a hospital serving Pahrump, Nevada, and from Dr. Georges Tannoury, a practitioner who owned Specialty Medical Center in that town. Her husband, Sie Ervine, who is also deaf, accompanied her on many of her medical visits. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ervine…