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California hospitals struggle to comply with a law requiring racism in medicine training, despite high maternal death rates among Black mothers.
Black women are three times more likely than any other women to die during or immediately after pregnancy. California lawmakers passed a law in 2019 requiring hospitals to train labor and delivery staff on unconscious bias in medicine.
In the year after California started requiring implicit bias training for medical professionals involved in pregnancy and childbirth, less than 17% of facilities had begun, a new report found.
