In November 2021, after more than a year of investigating the racial health disparities across its organization, Boston Medical Center launched the Health Equity Accelerator, a radical system-wide transformation to improve health outcomes for BMC’s Black and...
Internal data analysis conducted by Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator team found that the hospital’s Black pregnant patients were 1.7 times more likely to experience severe complications during birth than its white pregnant patients. This number was...