Seattle Kids’s mentioned the examination will embrace suggestions that the hospital’s management can undertake and perform.
SEATTLE — Seattle Kids’s has announced that former U.S. Lawyer Basic Eric Holder will lead an impartial examination into the hospital’s race and fairness practices after a celebrated Black physician accused the organization of racism final 12 months.
Dr. Ben Danielson was medical director on the Odessa Brown Kids’s Clinic in Seattle’s Central District, which is owned by Seattle Kids’s, earlier than he resigned in protest in November. He mentioned a member of the Seattle Kids’s administration known as him and others racial slurs, in response to the web site Crosscut, which first reported the resignation.
Since then, Seattle Kids’s has fashioned a brand new Assessment Committee, made up of choose Seattle Kids’s Hospital Board of Trustee members and representatives from the group, to look into the claims of racist conduct.
The committee was tasked in early January with discovering an out of doors professional to look into institutional racism throughout the hospital, and on Friday they introduced Eric Holder, a companion within the Collar Protection and Investigations Follow at Covington & Burling and the 82nd Lawyer Basic of the U.S., will lead the examination.
“We take current claims towards Seattle Kids’s critically and imagine they have to be examined,” mentioned Seattle Kids’s in a statement Friday. “We anticipate that Covington’s evaluation will have a look at an array of systemic and institutional points together with the precise objects raised within the wake of Dr. Ben Danielson’s departure. This holistic method and dedication to a full examination will permit the group to ship the very best care in an setting that understands, respects and nurtures all sufferers, households and members of our workforce.”
Seattle Kids’s mentioned the examination will embrace suggestions that the hospital’s management can undertake and perform.
“To dismantle the methods that permit racism to persist in our healthcare system and at Seattle Kids’s we imagine it’s crucial to be a part of the nationwide motion for racial justice,” Seattle Kids’s assertion continued.
Since his resignation in November, Danielson has taken a position on the UW Faculty of Drugs.
