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Collected Item: “Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy”

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Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy

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Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico implemented a secretive policy
that racially profiled Native American mothers. As expecting mothers who “looked” Native were admitted into the hospital, staff would compare their area codes to a list of zip codes belonging to Native lands such as Reservations or Pueblos. After being identified as “a person under investigation for COVID-19”, mothers were often misled or were forced into signing a wavier that gave permission for hospital staff to remove the newborns from their parents after birth. The families were only reunited once the pending coronavirus test results came back negative. Test results took up to three days to come in, thus leaving the mothers in fear and uncertainty about the wellbeing of their child.

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Lovelace, Native American, mothers, healthcare, newborns, separation, New Mexico indepth, ProPublica, racial profiling, New Mexico

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https://www.propublica.org/article/a-hospitals-secret-coronavirus-policy-separated-native-american-mothers-from-their-newborns

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ProPublica - Bryant Furlow for New Mexico In Depth

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2020-06-13
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