It’s Time to Address One of the Leading Causes of Health Care Complications: Racism [calhealthreport.org]

Ingrid Cockhren 3/22/2312:00 PM

By Angela D. Thomas and Lucy B. Schulson, Photo: iStock, California Health Report, February 28, 2023

Kira Johnson died 10 hours after a routine C-section in 2016 at a Los Angeles hospital. The medical cause — and the subject of her family’s ongoing wrongful death lawsuit — was hemorrhagic shock due to massive internal bleeding.

But there was another contributing factor, according to Kira’s husband: Racism. Charles Johnson filed a civil rights lawsuit last year alleging that his late wife received improper treatment because she was Black.

It’s becoming increasingly clear, according to new research by the RAND Corporation and MedStar Health, that Kira and her family are not alone.

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