{"id":1449395,"date":"2022-04-21T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449395"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:43:06","slug":"racial-health-equity-nonprofit-praises-clinic-accused-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racial-health-equity-nonprofit-praises-clinic-accused-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Racial Health Equity\u2019 Nonprofit Praises Clinic Accused of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fracial-health-equity-nonprofit-praises-clinic-accused-of-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A left-wing health nonprofit is praising an Oregon clinic for its commitment to &#8220;health equity&#8221;\u2014just weeks after workers accused the Portland facility of racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the Oregon Health and Science University&#8217;s (OHSU) Richmond Clinic organized a walkout in March over allegations that the facility&#8217;s management practices racial discrimination and has tried to silence workers who complain. Just weeks after the walkout, however, the California Improvement Network, a nonprofit committed to eliminating &#8220;structural barriers that prevent people of color&#8221; from receiving health care, praised the clinic for its advancement of &#8220;health equity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OHSU Richmond&#8217;s broader approach to healthy equity work prioritizes centering people with lived experience and seeks leadership from these individuals,&#8221; the California Improvement Network stated in its &#8220;Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement,&#8221; which the group published this month.<\/p>\n<p>This toolkit conflicts with a 2021 report commissioned by OHSU that <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cms.ipressroom.com\/296\/files\/202111\/Covington+_+Burling+LLP+Report+to+the+Board+of+Directors+of+Oregon+Health+_+Science+University.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determined<\/a> the clinic &#8220;failed to create an environment which community members feel values diversity, equity, and inclusion (\u2018DEI&#8217;) and makes them feel welcome and safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The clinic has not effectively addressed these concerns, according to some employees, who allege it enforces racist hiring practices and has a &#8220;discriminatory workplace culture,&#8221; the <em>Portland Mercury<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/blogtown\/2022\/03\/10\/39040116\/healthcare-workers-demand-ohsu-address-racial-discrimination-at-richmond-clinic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> last month. According to one black employee, clinic officials played music during a Zoom meeting to drown out his comments about racial bias. In another instance, employees claimed that two white workers were &#8220;acting black&#8221; in a photo to promote beanies.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged discrimination caused one worker to go on mental health leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the time our performance will be judged a lot more harshly than employees that are not employees of color,&#8221; the worker, who remained anonymous, told the <em>Mercury<\/em>. &#8220;No employer is perfect and sometimes you are going to be in a difficult situation as a person of color, but this experience I&#8217;ve had at OHSU has been beyond anything I&#8217;ve ever experienced in over 10 years of being in health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OHSU <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ohsu.edu\/2022\/04\/14\/statement-regarding-afscme-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last week it is revamping its human resources department in response to the workers&#8217; allegations. The local AFSCME <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local328.org\/blog\/ohsu-response-to-richmond-rally-and-demands-falls-far-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> that represents the workers did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In its equity report, the California Improvement Network praised OHSU for its coordination with community leaders and efforts to combat &#8220;racial inequities in diabetes.&#8221; The network is funded by the California Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to promote health care access for minorities. The organization did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/570992468\/A-Toolkit-to-Advance-Racial-Health-Equity-in-Primary-Care-Improvement#from_embed\">A Toolkit to Advance Racial Health Equity in Primary Care Improvement<\/a> by <em><a title=\"View Washington Free Beacon&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/247263517\/Washington-Free-Beacon#from_embed\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a><\/em> on Scribd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing health nonprofit is praising an Oregon clinic for its commitment to &#8220;health equity&#8221;\u2014just weeks after workers accused the Portland facility of racial discrimination. 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