Recommended Citation
Sallie Sanford, Conditions of Participation: Incorporating the History of Hospital Desegregation, 51 J.L., Med. & Ethics 979 (2023), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/1067
Publication Title
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Keywords
Simkins, Hospital Desegregation, Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Civil Rights History
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Our students ought to know about the history of formal hospital segregation and desegregation. To that end, this article urges those who teach foundational health law and policy courses to do three things. First, to teach the Simkins case. Second, to swap out the usual Medicare signing ceremony picture for one that includes W. Montague Cobb, M.D., Ph.D. Third, to highlight how the implementation of that program for the elderly led, in a matter of months, to the desegregation of hospitals throughout the country.
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