HMC Ethics Forum | Pulse Check: Trust, Power, and the Architecture of Care

Using real patient experiences, this presentation examines how communication, documentation, and system processes shape trust and diagnostic pathways in complex care. It highlights how small moments across the healthcare system can influence patient safety and long-term engagement in care.

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1. Recognize how early clinical assumptions and electronic health record documentation can influence patient trust and diagnostic decision-making.

HMC Ethics Forum | Pulse Check: Trust, Power, and the Architecture of Care

Join us in-person on Wednesday, April 8th at 12pm with Sarayah Brenda Obonyo for a discussion on "Trust, Power, and the Architecture of Care," a personal experience in our very own healthcare system. 

Using real patient experiences, this presentation examines how communication, documentation, and system processes shape trust and diagnostic pathways in complex care. It highlights how small moments across the healthcare system can influence patient safety and long-term engagement in care.

HMC Ethics Forum | Part 2 - Applying a Black Feminist Epistemology to Perinatal Quality Evaluation

Applying a Black Feminist Epistemology to Perinatal Quality Evaluation

This session introduces participants to Black woman-defined theoretical frameworks that contextualize the manufactured Black maternal health crisis (at the structural level) and quality of clinical practices and behaviors (at the departmental, team, and interpersonal levels). By engaging with these frameworks, participants will gain a more accurate and precise understanding of the systemic failures contributing to violations of quality and patient safety.

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HMC Ethics Forum | Part 1 - Positive Birth Outcomes & Harmful Birth Experiences

Positive Birth Outcomes & Harmful Birth Experiences

This session explores the contrast between institutional definitions of safety and the lived experiences of safety as defined for, by, and with Black mothers. Participants will examine how systemic structures define “being safe” and how these definitions may not align with patient experiences of “feeling safe”. The session emphasizes the importance of community wisdom in shaping perceptions of quality and safety.

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