Prevalence of Disfranchisement Among the Black Community as Patients in American Health CareThursday, May 16, 2024 (12pm - 1:30pm US/Central) Virtual |
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Presented by Mulba Borsay MA MDiv DMin BCC and Larry Spielman MDiv MAAL DMin BCC
Please Register by Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Overview:
Racial disparity is a reality in American healthcare leading to poor communication between patient and health care team as plans of care are developed. Distrust between patients and medical team also exists. (Institute of Medicine, 2003, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press https://doi.org/10.17226/12875).
The article presented in this webinar found that the Black community experiences this disparity more than other segments of the population. This dynamic has a long history from before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments to current experiences such as black patients being less likely to receive the same level of health care as others segments of society and getting less information about their ailment than all other populations.
It is critical chaplains be aware of the literature documenting black patients’ disenfranchisement in personal healthcare. With greater awareness the chaplain likely will increase their ability to advocate for disenfranchised persons and develop more options to benefit disenfranchised people in their pastoral care.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will become familiar with the findings of barriers in health care by reviewing the 2023 article: “Shared decision making (SDM) with black patients: a scoping review”
2. Participants will hear actual experiences in support of these findings from a black BCC chaplain who also has been a patient, and a white BCC chaplain.
3. Participants will explore options chaplains can utilize when faced with these experiences.
Presenters:
Mulba Borsay, MA MDiv DMin BCC - I was born in Monrovia, Liberia and have resided in the United States for over forty years. I did CPE at the Cleveland Clinic. I earned a master’s and doctoral degrees in Black Church Studies from Ashland Theological Seminary. I worked at Huron, a trauma hospital with ninety percent black patients, where I was a Palliative Care Chaplain. Presently, I am at Metro Health Medical Center, a level one trauma and county hospital.
Larry Spielman MDiv MAAL DMin BCC - I began professional ministry in 1978, serving in California and in the Cleveland area of Ohio. More often than not my work has engaged me in issues of racial and gender idenity justice. I did clinical residencies at Sharpe Memorial, San Diego and Cleveland Clinic. Currently I work part time for Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland Ohio as an Oncology Chaplain.
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