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‘It seems that they did not value her as a human’ | Investigating decades old claims of wrongdoing inside Central State Hospital Shay McAlister, Jackelyn Jorgensen
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In 1940 at Central State Hospital, Ada Doss Campbell took her final breath. She was a daughter, a mother and a wife, but back then, Campbell was defined as a Black woman with a “mental condition.”
Nearly eight decades later, a family member is desperate to give Campbell a voice. She believes discrimination led to Campbell’s death all those years ago. She had a rapidly advancing labor pneumonia bilaterally,” Dr. Renee Campbell read from medical records. She went into pleurisy with effusion and died from professional neglect in the early stages of her illness.
‘It seems that they did not value her as a human’ | Investigating decades old claims of wrongdoing inside Central State Hospital
A social worker is fighting to give her grandmother a voice, after medical records detail she died from ‘professional neglect’ at Central State Hospital in 1940. Author: Shay McAlister Updated: 9:01 PM EDT May 24, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. In 1940 at Central State Hospital, Ada Doss Campbell took her final breath. She was a daughter, a mother and a wife, but back then, Campbell was defined as a Black woman with a “mental condition.”
Nearly eight decades later, a family member is desperate to give Campbell a voice. She believes discrimination led to Campbell’s death all those years ago.