AnMed Health issued the following announcement on February 7.
February is Black History Month and the 2022 theme, "Black Health and Wellness", takes a look at how American healthcare has often under-served the African-American community. As the COVID-19 pandemic has recently shown, a widespread disparity of access to quality healthcare negatively impacts outcomes for minorities.
"While the African-American population makes up just 27% of our state and 41% of confirmed cases, 56% of South Carolina's deaths from COVID-19 have been African American. I know that this virus is only holding up a mirror to inequities that have existed in our state for far too long. This serves as a stark reminder of the health inequities that we must work together to address," said Juana Slade, Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Diversity and Language Services at AnMed Health.
For African-Americans, the root of the problem goes back centuries. Beginning with slavery and a lack of economic opportunity, medical care was often out of reach for many African-Americans. But through the years there have been pioneers. This list represents just a few of the medical pioneers of African heritage who dedicated their lives to the "Health and Wellness" of others. https://www.aafp.org/.../inside.../20210205bhmtimeline.html
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