Healthcare Staff Perspectives and Experiences of Racism’s Impact on Care for Hospitalized Black Adults: A Qualitative Study
Inequities in hospital-based care for Black patients may have roots in complex interactions between individual biases, workplace discrimination, institutional factors, and systemic underinvestment in non-clinician staff. Respondents perceived that institutional factors, such as inadequate staffing and demanding workloads, amplified racist beliefs, resulting in inequitable care for Black patients. Hospitals should invest in non-clinician hospital staff and address structural factors impeding staff members' ability to provide equitable care to all patients.
Authors
- Lorraine M. Pereira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-1682)
- A Martin
- Elizabeth Dzeng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-8053)
- Natalie Sohn
- Sofia Weiss Goitiandia
- Catthi Ly
- Karen Vickers
- Sally Oh
- Sharifa Brooks-Smith-Lowe
- Stephanie Morgan
- Desirée Anderson
- James Washington
- Trymel Harris
- Linda Hills
- Lee Harrison
- Cinnamon Rochell Etta
Institutions
- San Francisco General Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Advisory Board Company (United States) (US)
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (US)
- Cicely Saunders International (GB)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10174-3
- Primary Topic
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- King's College London
- University of California, San Francisco