The federal government has launched a civil rights investigation into how Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles treats Black women who give birth at the hospital, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to ABC News.
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"Cedars-Sinai clinicians, leaders and researchers have long been concerned with national disparities in Black maternal health, and we are proud of the work we've done to address these issues in Los Angeles as well as at the state and national levels," the spokesperson said.The spokesperson also said the medical center has made ongoing efforts to address the issue, including distributing more than $2.
The death of Kira Dixon Johnson sparked a national conversation about the racial disparities in Black maternal care. After his wife's death, Johnson worked with former Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., on legislation to prevent maternal deaths that was signed into law in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump.He said that after seeing blood in his wife's catheter after she delivered their second son, he pleaded with medical staff to provide her care, but his pleas were ignored for hours. She was taken into a procedure room 10 hours later and died of internal bleeding.
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