Seattle Children’s knew for years security was called disproportionately on Black patients By Asia Fields, The Seattle Times
Published: April 21, 2021, 9:35am
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SEATTLE At Seattle Children’s, a father’s request for staff to use a needleless injection device on his child as the doctor ordered instead of a numbing cream ended with security taking him from the room.
“As a black man, being escorted away from my very sick child by a security officer left me powerless, embarrassed, and seen in the eyes of other families on the unit as a criminal,” he said, according to an internal report led by the hospital’s Center for Diversity and Health Equity.