On March 7, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its Civil Rights Office (OCR) is investigating four medical schools and hospitals under Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964 (Title VI) and Section 1557 of the affordable Attention Law (Section 1557).
Research responds to the accusations that OCR received that certain medical schools and hospitals that receive HHS funds can operate medical education, training or scholarship programs that discriminate based on race, color, national origin or sex.
HHS declared that the investigations are aligned with the Executive Order 14173, End the illegal discrimination and restore the opportunity based on merit.
«Today’s actions restore opportunities based on merit in medicine and mean that health professionals who work at work and high performance students in the pipe for medical and elderly fields should not degrade at work, or excluded from the opportunities of professionals or scholarships, due to their race or sex,» said Anthony, director of acting of the OCR of the HHS, in a statement.
