Systemic Racism Adds Another Layer of Trauma for Many People; Therapist Calls it ‘A Public Health Crisis’
By TED HARTZELL BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – Tasha Turner is in a position to know a lot about the pain of stress and trauma. As a program director, Turner, a psychotherapist, directs trauma-informed initiatives for Lakeland Health, the health care system that serves...
What Racism Does to the Body
What Racism Does to the Body Medical Science Is Solving a Mystery for a Physician Who Wondered for Years What Was Happening to Her Patients By TED HARTZELL BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – For years Dr. Pat Rush kept confronting a troubling mystery: Why did so many patients she...
Chronic Racism is Itself a Killer
Chronic Racism is Itself a Killer Lakeland Health Embarks on 3-year ‘Conversation’ to Help a Racially Polarized Community Understand the Latest Science By TED HARTZELL ST. JOSEPH, Mich.— Lynn Todman is serious about getting a message to the doctors, other front-line...
An Eye-Opening Moment
An Eye-Opening Moment How a Foundation and Health System Teamed Up to Fight the Local Scourge of High Rates of Disease, Early Death for Blacks By TED HARTZELL ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — “Lynn, it’s too much. Too many people are dying around Benton Harbor.” Lynn Todman...Healing the Trauma of Racism
Spectrum Health Lakeland Community Grand Rounds addresses how racism plays a role in community health. Come and hear Dr. Bechara Choucair, on Wednesday! https://t.co/kN0OLpWVgu #cgr #bravetalks
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Join us in Benton Harbor, MI on July 17 and hear Kaiser Permanente's Chief Community Health Officer, Bechara Choucair, MD.
4Robin DiAngelo articulates structural racism eloquently:
"All of our institutions effectively and efficiently reproduce it. Just by virtue of the homogeneity of those sitting at the tables making decisions that impact the lives of those who aren't sitting at those tables.
Quote from Commissioner Todman - https://t.co/oB94vrMbqG
Join us - a free speaker event, “Advancing Health? It’s about the Mind, the Body and the Community,” on Wednesday, July 17 from 6:30 to 8:00 https://t.co/5SGXd86hId the Howard Performing Arts Center located at 4160 East Campus Circle Drive in Berrien Springs.
