Sacramento’s emergency care delays and outdated EMS policies are straining hospitals, with data showing Black residents face disproportionate ER use and preventable hospitalizations.
Race and Equity
Stanford ER physician Dr. Italo Brown combines emergency care, teaching and community outreach to push for greater representation and health equity in medicine.
More than 7,000 immigrants were arrested in Massachusetts in the first 15 months of the second Trump administration, but the reverberations of those detentions affect thousands more family members.
Black patients with lupus and sickle cell disease describe ER visits marked by dismissal, bias and fear, while advocates point to broader inequities in emergency care.
Founded in Pittsburgh in 1967, Freedom House trained young Black men as pioneering paramedics, helping shape modern emergency medical services.
Pediatric emergency physician Dr. Tiffani Johnson studies how racism and inequities shape child health while mentoring the next generation of advocates.
Black patients’ ER experiences are shaped by medical history, implicit bias and disparities in pain treatment, triage and algorithms — prompting advocates to demand systemic change.
“Prosecutors are going to fight you any time you try to take a tool out of their toolbelt,” a former prosecutor said.
With PE cuts and shrinking recess in many schools, why are we now testing kids on skills we never really taught them?
Shawn didn’t kill anyone. He’s serving life plus 15 years for felony murder.