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Senate panel backs bill to require unconscious-bias training for licensed health professionals
Summary
The subcommittee recommended SB 740 to the full committee, which would add cultural competency and unconscious-bias training to continuing education requirements for licensed health professionals, citing disparities in pregnancy-related deaths and other maternal outcomes.
Senator Lashrecse A. Locke, patron of SB 740, told the Senate Health Professions Subcommittee that the bill would add unconscious-bias and cultural-competency training to continuing education requirements for licensure.
The bill, Locke said, responds to persistent racial disparities in maternal outcomes in Virginia, noting that in 2021 pregnancy-related death rates were 113.8 per 100,000 for Black women and 54.8 per 100,000 for white women. Locke said 80.2 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in Virginia are preventable and that…
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