A diverse healthcare team can save Black mothers’ lives
Black women in the United States face a maternal mortality rate approximately three times higher than that of white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number has persisted across income levels, education levels, and geography. One of the most concrete responses to it, at the individual level, is the doula. […]
How Racial Bias in Healthcare Is Killing Black Patients Quietly
When a patient walks into a medical facility, the assumption is that the quality of care they receive will not depend on the color of their skin. For millions of Black Americans and other people of color, that assumption does not hold because of Racial bias. More than 10% of Black adults in the United […]