Asheville, North Carolina made national headlines on major news outlets in July 2020 as City Council members voted to pass a reparation bill to black residents.  The Asheville City Council apologized for the city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to black residents and voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants. 

Within all the topics of reparations, healthcare has been named a Public Health Crisis.  Major insurance corporations including Medicare have begun integrating social determinates of health as a way of incentivizing providers and healthcare organizations to better secure the health and well-being of black patients.

Local Asheville natives, Jacquelyn Hallum, MBA, MHA; Darin Waters, PhD.; and Sharon West, RN will share in the discussion of what reparations in healthcare looks like for black citizens who have suffered discrimination within the healthcare industry from a patient, caregiver, and healthcare employee perspective. This conversation will be moderated by William R. Hathaway, MD, FACC, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the North Carolina Division of HCA / Mission Health.