Hispanics and African Americans Receive Poorer Care in Nursing Homes

Dan Frith

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A recent study published by a science/medicine newsletter, Physorg.com, concludes that Hispanics at nursing homes with a high rate of Hispanic residents were more likely to have bed sores, compared to Hispanics living in nursing homes with fewer Hispanic residents. The conclusions were reached after looking at the rate of bed sores at nursing homes with high concentrations of Hispanic patients, compared to others with low concentrations. Michael Gerardo, adjunct assistant professor of community health at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, led the research.

The study comes less than two years after a landmark 2007 study, published in Health Affairs, that suggests blacks are more likely than whites to live in poor-quality nursing homes.

My Take: I don't know that this report should shock anyone...discrimination takes many forms in America. It is not a distinction of which we should be proud!