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Beyond Declarative Advocacy: Moving Organized Medicine And Policy Makers From Position Statements To Anti-Racist Praxis | Health Affairs
Based on the context of this article one should review the past 6 years of DC Health Care Policy and Leadership: (1) the systematic financial underfunding of services at United Medical Center with closure of maternity and cancer treatment services.(2) the closure of Providence Hospital and exodus of minority physicians.(3) the specific exclusion of Howard […]
The African American oppression, anxiety/depression-based opioid epidemic
Dear Colleagues,The African American oppression —> anxiety/depression-based opioid epidemic (heroin —> fentanyl) continues to be viewed as a “moral problem” and treated differently from the current White “opioid pills from the doctor’s office epidemic.” The attached presentation is a systematic, culturally sensitive, office based, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (M-OUD) approach specifically designed to “reverse […]
Understanding “Anti-Racism” vs “Colonial Mentality” in DC Healthcare Contracting
“Colonial Mentality Contracting” is why the DC Government has not been unable to write a Medicaid MCO contract that can pass a judges’s scrutiny. After multiple amateurish tries and no responsible DC Council oversight, DCHCF has repeatedly failed over the past 3 years to competently direct the $1.5 billion Medicaid taxpayer money to the right […]