According to USA Today (2/15, Alltucker), a report from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative found that “47% of U.S. health care workers” surveyed “said they witnessed discrimination against patients, and 52% said that racism against patients was a major problem.” Researchers found that “employees at health facilities with a higher percentage of Black or Latino patients witnessed higher rates of discrimination.” The survey found that “at hospitals with a majority of Black patients, 70% of workers said they witnessed discrimination against patients based on their race or ethnicity.” Meanwhile, “for hospitals with mostly Latino patients, that figure was 61%.”
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— “Nearly half of health care workers have witnessed racism, discrimination, report shows,”Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, February 15, 2024