id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_d6sisacqqjbtndooh4alhwdwu4 Karthik Sivashanker Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19 2020 4 .pdf application/pdf 2517 204 48 Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19 Addressing the caste system in U.S. healthcare in the era of COVID-19 The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the casteocracy; and conversations about racism in healthcare largely occupy an echo chamber among the privileged upper caste of hospital professionals. emerged among employee groups at healthcare institutions. room cleaning and timeliness of transportation, while environmental services and transportation workers reported resistance from some clinical staff in sharing scarce personal Low wage healthcare workers have long faced poverty that COVID-infection rates between employee groups small group sessions for workgroups including environmental services, security, materials management, food and provided reassurance around job, income, and personal leave time if employees tested positive for COVIDhospital for lower income staff and made free for internal centers, and equitable access to PPE and COVIDhttp://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/how-to-address-equity-as-part-of-covid-19-incident-command http://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/how-to-address-equity-as-part-of-covid-19-incident-command Challenges for low wage healthcare workers ./cache/work_d6sisacqqjbtndooh4alhwdwu4.pdf ./txt/work_d6sisacqqjbtndooh4alhwdwu4.txt