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CLEVELAND — The Clinical Translational Science Collaborative at Case Western Reserve University hosted its first Black Maternal Health Equity Summit at Cleveland State University.
“Hopefully we do began seeing change, because we should all be treated equally. We are human also, as Black women we are no different from anyone else,” said Cameron Johnson. “When I had my 12-year-old son, it was almost a mortality. I was in pain, and I kept telling the nurse that I was in pain; she was not listening to me. She said 'you’re having an asthma attack; you're just freaking out.' My mother began to advocate for me as a health care professional and say 'I believe that she's having some pain, she's not in labor, she's having pain,'” said James.
Da’na M. Langford is the co-founder of the Village of Healing Center in Euclid, Langford said they were the only healthcare system in the summit. "I think this summit is bringing together those Black organizations in the city that are on the ground doing the work like Village of Healing; our numbers right now, just for this fiscal year, as of July 1, with a 94%, full-term birth rate," said Langford."We are on the ground doing the work and committed to the community.
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