The importance of racial concordance in healthcare

Violet is a clinical nurse supervisor and program manager at Healthy Birth Initiative in Portland, Ore., an organization that addresses the needs of pregnant Black women. She and her daughter, Drechelle, discuss the differing experiences Drechelle had between the birth of her first child without the benefit of the Healthy Birth Initiative and her second when she did enlist its help. They also stressed the importance of racial concordance in healthcare – providers and patients who are of the same race and/or cultural identity – and what it has meant to Drechelle and her family. Edit credit: Sean Collins

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KEYWORDS:

• Drechelle McCray
• Violet Larry
• Birth Trauma
• Healthy Birth Initiative
• Black
• Pregnant
• Racial concordance