Sunday, April 07, 2024

Concerns about 'structural racism' prompt major Mass. hospital network to change policies about babies born addicted to drugs | Blaze Media

A major hospital network in Massachusetts has now revamped its policies regarding babies born addicted to drugs in an attempt to address "significant racial and ethnic inequities" it claims are associated with substance abuse disorder. - CORTNEY WEIL
  • On Tuesday, Mass General Brigham, the commonwealth's largest hospital group, announced that it will no longer automatically report that an infant has been born with drug addiction since the automatic reporting and other such policies "disproportionately affect Black individuals."...

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