3 years ago
First up @ Cleveland Clinic....part of expansion a...
First up @ Cleveland Clinic....part of expansion and in moving forward as a leading health care facility should consist of your staff treating all citizens with the same dignity and respect they give others. This will require that they get away from their old school way of thinking about minorities in this country, hire people that can explore, handle, and investigate these negative allegations. You're receiving from other groups that are experiencing disparity for a reason and should do something to correct this! Why? Because your reputation as being world class is at stake and is on the line because of them. It is no mystery that Marymount has treated it's black patients and guest differently and have been getting away with it for years, I might add. ( for shame, for shame!) Their non-verbals speak for themselves and perception of having power, privilege and superiority has diminished and no longer exist especially in the industry of health care. Ah yes! A change is a coming and they need to get with the program and stop taking their personals out on people because of the color of their skin or because they don't act or look like them. Do they not value the oath they took to serve all people? I might also add that Idealistically, this is NOT good business in the long run.
Secondly, your nurses are not doctors and have been given this power as they treat patients differently, people can sense and feel being treated this way.
No way am I singling out a certain group either, a couple of your cafeteria prep/workers, ( black and white), may need this course in ethics and in having a personality as well. I think they're confused systematically by the way they have viewed the way people of color have been treated in the past. ( learned behavior)
It is my hope that someone from your corporate take a look within, renovations should start with your people.
A company is only as good as it's people they employ who represents them and change is nothing to fear.
If anything they need to embrace that people are people and we all deserve the same when it comes to quality care.