Health Equity

US hospitals struggle to reduce health disparities: Minority patients underrepresented in 4 of 5 hospitals

Abstract: Only 29% of hospitals treated a proportion of Black patients that was comparable to the proportion of Black residents living in the community.

Publication: USA Today

Date Published: July 27, 2021

Author(s): Adrianna Rodriguez

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