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Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy

Title (Dublin Core)

Lovelace Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy

Description (Dublin Core)

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.

Lovelace, Native American, mothers, healthcare, newborns, separation, New Mexico indepth, ProPublica, racial profiling, New Mexico
HST 580

Date (Dublin Core)

June 13, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

ProPublica - Bryant Furlow for New Mexico In Depth

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Angelica Gallegos

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

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

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Community & Community Organizations
English Conflict
English Emotion
English Healthcare
English Home & Family Life
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Lovelace
Native American
mother
health care
newborn
separation
New Mexico Indepth
ProPublica
racial profiling
New Mexico

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Lovelace
Native American
mother
health care
newborn
separation
New Mexico Indepth
ProPublica
racial profiling
New Mexico

Collection (Dublin Core)

New Mexico Narratives
Motherhood
Healthcare

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/04/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/04/2020
10/12/2020
08/24/2021
08/02/2022
09/23/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/13/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University
Motherhood

This item was submitted on October 4, 2020 by Angellica Gallegos using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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