A hospital now wants new parents….

[mjkacmom]

A Google Search found this article

https://www.fastcompany.com/9088429...t-their-race-ethnicity-and-sexual-orientation


04-20-23HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH



BY ROBERT C. GARRETT FOR HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH
4 MINUTE READ
Sharing your medical history can lead to some highly personal conversations in a hospital or physician’s office, but full disclosure is necessary to achieve the best health.


There’s another equally important request you should expect from your healthcare provider: questions about your race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Collecting this demographic data is a priority for our health network and many other health systems throughout the nation so that we can provide culturally competent care and address unacceptable gaps that impact far too many people.

Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women in the U.S., according to the CDC.
Nearly half of Hispanic Americans say they don’t have access to quality medical care where they live, and 44% say that problems from language or cultural differences are a major reason why they have worse health outcomes than other adults, according to the Pew Research Center.
1 in 8 LGBTQ+ people live in a state where healthcare providers can legally refuse to treat them based on religious grounds, according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ+ think tank.
ACCESSING FOCUSED DATA
Advances in healthcare are not limited to developing a blockbuster drug or implementing new robotic or diagnostic tools, as welcome as these are. An organization’s deep understanding of the needs of all communities is also at the center of real change in patient outcomes and well-being. This is why we get personal. We believe that access to high-quality healthcare—no matter where you live, the color of your skin, or who you love—is everyone’s right. And we can’t tackle this problem without having credible and timely data.

Be it sexual orientation, gender, age, race, or ethnicity, these factors present an opportunity for us to individualize our plans of care and create initiatives that promote health and wellness within whole populations of patients. And keep in mind that while members of our care team will access this information, it will be kept highly confidential as mandated by regulatory and privacy requirements.

In practical terms, here are a few examples of how health systems are making progress:

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index, a national benchmarking tool that evaluates health system policies and practices regarding the LGBTQ+ community, reports that more than 900 hospitals in the U.S. are embracing inclusive practices. These practices include staff sensitivity training, gender-neutral bathrooms, or the creation of specialized clinics for youth or adult transgender patients. I’m proud of our team at Hackensack Meridian Health, where 13 of our hospitals received top honors as a “leader” or as being “high performing.”
Hospitals first created new services to address cultural, ethnic and other specialized needs years ago, but these programs continue to expand to meet the needs of growing and diverse populations. Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest systems, operates the Latino Health Center, which provides bilingual services, greater access to care, and targeted screenings. UC San Francisco’s Asian Heart and Vascular Center provides specialists who can understand, communicate about, and treat heart disease and who also engage in research to better understand the metabolic and genetic differences of the Asian community.
To improve maternal health and target racial disparities in outcomes, Hackensack Meridian Health has made major strides in reducing prenatal and postpartum hemorrhage. In the U.S., Black women are almost more than two times as likely than white women to die of hemorrhage or embolism. Because of our many advances, Hackensack University Medical Center, our network’s academic flagship hospital, is the first in the nation to earn the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Perinatal Care.
In addition, we have begun removing the requirement for a prescription to undergo a mammogram. Black women are 40% more likely than white women to die from breast cancer, even though the cancer incidence rate among Black and white women is approximately the same. Reducing barriers to screening will no doubt save lives.
COMPREHENSIVE, CONSTRUCTIVE CARE
Our mission as New Jersey’s largest health system is to transform healthcare and we cannot achieve our goal if we don’t continue to improve outcomes and experiences for all patients. We can never forget that healthcare is more than statistics; it’s about people and their hopes and dreams and desire to be treated with dignity. I came across a moving quote included in the Healthcare Equality Index national report. A transgender woman undergoing her first physical in years described her experience. “When I walked toward the women’s bathroom in the waiting area, the receptionist jumped up and told me to use a McDonald’s restroom down the street. I felt like leaving and never going back.” This unfortunate incident is a powerful reminder of why we are on this journey.

Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, is the CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest health system, with 18 hospitals, more than 500 patient care locations, and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Most of our doctors are in this group.

 

[White Cat]

Not always. Intersex people exist.

That’s why I said when the sex of the child is obvious.

 

[OKW8297]

Then it sounds like it's just a placeholder - the system has that box for adults, and they don't want to have to do a new form every few years, so they leave it blank for now and update in the computer as the patient ages.

Exactly. I think the pearls can be unclutched.

 

[SirDuff]

That’s why I said when the sex of the child is obvious.

Then you said wrong (again). With intersex, the sex is not always obvious.

 

[jtopp]

The idiocracy of a small portion of the overall population is increasingly bordering on the ridiculous. How does a small group of misguided people have so much political clout to force these self serving policies on everyone. Most of the population of this country is able to determine their sexuality and gender without having to determine alternatives. As activist Matt Walsh has defined, a male is a human with an XY chromosone, and a female is a human with an XX chromosone. Biologically, those are the only two choices. As for identifying gender, does a newborn have the ability to choose which gender they wish to identify as?

 

[jtopp]

Then you said wrong (again). With intersex, the sex is not always obvious.

How many documented cases of intersex occur,?

 

[Moliphino]

The idiocracy of a small portion of the overall population is increasingly bordering on the ridiculous. How does a small group of misguided people have so much political clout to force these self serving policies on everyone. Most of the population of this country is able to determine their sexuality and gender without having to determine alternatives. As activist Matt Walsh has defined, a male is a human with an XY chromosone, and a female is a human with an XX chromosone. Biologically, those are the only two choices. As for identifying gender, does a newborn have the ability to choose which gender they wish to identify as?

Biologically, there is more than XX and XY.

 

[Moliphino]

That’s why I said when the sex of the child is obvious.

It can look obvious externally, but even that's not always right.
I've heard of multiple cases where people thought they were female until they found out they had internal testes.

 

[luv2cheer92]

The idiocracy of a small portion of the overall population is increasingly bordering on the ridiculous. How does a small group of misguided people have so much political clout to force these self serving policies on everyone. Most of the population of this country is able to determine their sexuality and gender without having to determine alternatives. As activist Matt Walsh has defined, a male is a human with an XY chromosone, and a female is a human with an XX chromosone. Biologically, those are the only two choices. As for identifying gender, does a newborn have the ability to choose which gender they wish to identify as?

Please learn biology.

 

[leahgoogle]

I’m really not. I’ve been on this forum for over a decade and rarely start a post. This form that includes asking about the sexual orientation of the newborn seemed quite odd to me. The fact that the clerk is supposed to give it to the parents along with the birth certificate paperwork seems to be specifically aimed at identifying the baby, for whatever reason.

I don’t understand why someone can’t post something to seek more opinions and information without there being some sort of hidden agenda

Because it's the DIS Boards....lol. I agree the form is weird.

 

[porschegrl]

Please learn biology.

But Matt Walsh said so!

 

[jimmymc]

I wouldn't believe everything you read online. Either someone is making this up to generate outrage and clicks, or it's a standard form like someone mentioned above.

 

[leahgoogle]

Not always. Intersex people exist.

Intersex is incredibly rare....about 0.018%.

 

[luv2cheer92]

But Matt Walsh said so!

Lol, the first of many red flags...

 

[starlite_]

Intersex is incredibly rare....about 0.018%.

That's about 1.45 million ppl worldwide.

 

[leahgoogle]

That's about 1.45 million ppl worldwide.

Which is rare worldwide.

 

[disneychrista]

Why would they need that info for any adults either?! Don't fill any of it out!!

Sometimes these things are just statistical data.

If there is something on a form you do not feel comfortable completing don't. Then when they insist, ask for clarification on why.

 

[Genie+]

Intersex is incredibly rare....about 0.018%.

Most advocacy groups estimate that 1.7% percent of people are born intersex — the equivalent of about 5.6 million U.S. residents. That estimate is based on a review published in the American Journal of Human Biology that looked at four decades of medical literature from 1955 to 1998.

How many babies are born with both genders?
An estimated 1 in 2,000 children born each year are neither boy nor girl -- they are intersex, part of a group of about 60 conditions that fall under the diagnosis of disorders of sexual development (DSD). Once called hermaphrodites, from the handsome Greek god who had dual sexuality, they are now known as intersex.

^That’s 2 snippets from a google search. It’s hard to say with certainty where the numbers fall.

 

[leahgoogle]

Most advocacy groups estimate that 1.7% percent of people are born intersex — the equivalent of about 5.6 million U.S. residents. That estimate is based on a review published in the American Journal of Human Biology that looked at four decades of medical literature from 1955 to 1998.

How many babies are born with both genders?
An estimated 1 in 2,000 children born each year are neither boy nor girl -- they are intersex, part of a group of about 60 conditions that fall under the diagnosis of disorders of sexual development (DSD). Once called hermaphrodites, from the handsome Greek god who had dual sexuality, they are now known as intersex.

^That’s 2 snippets from a google search. It’s hard to say with certainty where the numbers fall.

This explains the 0.018%.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.

 

[starlite_]

Which is rare worldwide.

So you don't think 1.45 million ppl matter. Good to know.