Nursing Homes and Racism
July 13, 2011, by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
Medicare noticed that blacks are more likely than whites to develop bed sores in nursing homes. So they asked why. The answer appears to be that there are meaningful differences in care between homes with predominantly black patients as opposed to predominantly white patients.
Of course, the study's author provided the "Look most nursing homes - black or white - suck anyway" caveat (perhaps not those exact words) and the "this does not mean that individual nursing homes are providing better care to whites than blacks." Still, this is not particularly good news.
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