Nearly half of health care workers in the United States have witnessed discrimination against minority patients at the medical centers and hospitals where they work, according to a report released on Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund and the Afro-American Research Collaborative.
In hospitals with a majority of Black patients, 70% of workers reported seeing discrimination against patients because of their race or ethnicity. At facilities with a majority of Latino patients, the rate was 61%. But if the center had a majority of white patients, the percentage dropped to 43%.
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