Opinion: Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color
The violent police attacks on Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and far too many others, along with the high rates of Covid-19 among minority communities, have illuminated an ugly fact: being a person of color in America is bad for your health.
Across the board, people of color have worse health outcomes than their white counterparts. Black Americans have lower life expectancies than white Americans, and the infant mortality rate for Black infants is more than twice that of white babies. Black Americans are 60% more likely to have diabetes than are white Americans, and they have higher rates or heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
