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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (76486)	10/5/2003 11:08:34 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Heard this on the news last night and was so amazed that I went googling to find a story on it--What is surprising is not the request of the couple-- after all, it is no secret that bigotry still lurks everywhere--but the hospital's response. This is no low radar act! Hospital apologizes for keeping black workers from patient's room The Associated Press 10/3/2003, 8:34 a.m. ET ABINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia hospital apologized to employees because supervisors complied with the demand of a pregnant patient's husband that no black employees assist in the delivery of his child. Supervisors at Abington Memorial Hospital agreed to prevent black employees from entering the patient's hospital room for several days last month, a decision called "morally reprehensible" by hospital president Richard L. Jones Jr. Meg McGoldrick, the hospital's vice president, said the supervisors sought to avoid a confrontation by keeping certain staff members — including doctors, nurses and service employees — from interacting with the man and his family. McGoldrick said the hospital was "wrong" to accommodate the man's wishes and should have followed its own policy, which mandates that care be "provided on a nondiscriminatory basis." "The whole incident has greatly upset many of our employees ... who perceived that we were acquiescing to the family's wishes," McGoldrick told The Philadelphia Inquirer in Friday editions. The patient and her husband could not be identified because of privacy laws. Hospital management has taken steps to address the situation, including apologizing to those employees who were kept out of the patient's room and hiring consultants to assist in the handling of cultural issues. Jones also sent a letter to all hospital employees on Sept. 16, vowing to "better address unconscionable circumstances like this." The Philadelphia office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was notified, but has not filed or received a formal complaint. Abington is a 508-bed hospital that caters to patients in Montgomery and Bucks counties and Philadelphia. Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer newsday.com