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Looking forward on addressing racial inequity in healthcare Jan 29, 2021 Save
Dalton Tong, a longtime healthcare finance leader and likely the first Black member of the HFMA National Board shares his story and suggests ways colleagues can improve opportunities within healthcare and across society for Black people and other minorities. After waves of racial unrest broke across the country in 2020, healthcare organizations and leaders have renewed their focus on the effects of racism and racial disparities. As healthcare leaders look for actions to address those challenges and health inequity issues, Dalton A. Tong, FHFMA, CPA, MBA, 70, shared his experiences and vision of how the sector can help.
A mother, a doctor and healthy babies Courtland Milloy, The Washington Post Jan. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In a cellphone video taken by her husband, Folasada Butler lays in a hospital bed after giving birth to twins. The doctor who delivered them, Lynne Lightfoote, holds a newborn in each arm. Butler and Lightfoote are wearing protective masks, but you can hear their muffled expressions of awe. Oh my God, they say, again and again. That s how childbirth is supposed to be. A blessed event. For too many women, though, it s a death sentence. Maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States are the highest among developed nations. And the racial disparities are stunning, with Black women three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than White women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.