MetroHealth's new CEO Dr. Airica Steed came in more than five months ago with a big mission: To eliminate the racial inequities in healthcare within her hospital system.
CLEVELAND — Last week News 5 Anchor, Courtney Gousman, shared her conversation with MetroHealth's new CEO, Dr. Airica Steed.
"I've lost too many loved ones too soon being a byproduct of health inequity and healthcare disparities," says Dr. Steed."I was heartbroken learning that Cleveland is the most unlivable city in the United States for Black women, and healthcare is one of the reasons why," the CEO told Gousman. A sudden onset of preeclampsia put this nurse eerily close to becoming a victim of maternal mortality during her fourth and final pregnancy.The mother is making women and babies a priority for MetroHealth.
"There is a huge disparity between our white patients and our Black patients, particularly maternal mortality, unconscious bias, implicit bias. We want to try to narrow that," Green said."I'm here to start to increase the representation of our healthcare professionals at the physician level, at the nursing level," she said.
"We have to start to address food insecurity, housing insecurity, lifting our communities up out of poverty, which does contribute to poor life expectancy. It's my personal goal to keep you out of the hospital. We're in this to make our communities healthier," said Steed.
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