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Conditions Of Participation: Incorporating The History Of Hospital Desegregation, Sallie Sanford Jan 2023

Conditions Of Participation: Incorporating The History Of Hospital Desegregation, Sallie Sanford

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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.