Desegregating healthcare

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• David Barton Smith, The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health
  In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need.
• Power to Heal - video documentary
  Based on the book by David Barton Smith, POWER TO HEAL is an hour-long public television documentary that tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
• Screening and panel discussion of The Power to Heal
  The panel discussion took place at the Duke Trent Semans Center on April 18, 2018 and featured author David Barton Smith, Brenda Armstrong, Eileen Watts Welch, and Jeffrey Baker.