Honoring Black History Month
February 2024 Newsletter #42
Pictured above, St. Agnes Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a celebrated Historically Black Hospital. An article on the African American Registry provides historical context.
"Black hospitals have existed in three broad types: segregated, black-controlled, and demographically determined."
“Until the rise of the American Civil Rights Movement, hospitals in the South and the North denied Blacks admission or accommodated them exclusively in segregated wards, usually in undesirable locations such as unheated attics and damp basements."
"Blacks founded hospitals to meet the specific needs of the African American communities. Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first Black-controlled hospital in America, opened in 1891. Racism in Chicago prevented Black nurses and doctors from practicing, thus eliminating health care for black patients."
The quotes above from the article, would likely resonate with today’s care professionals in the Long Term Care (LTC) sector – especially people of color. They face similar cultural headwinds, rarely earn a living wage, and aren’t always treated with respect, dignity, or compassion. The LTC industry needs to embrace a cultural reformation that fully addresses underlying systemic social and economic issues. So that one day every care professional will earn a living wage and will live a life of dignity.
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