Only blocks from the statue’s new home in Green-Wood Cemetery, where Sims is buried, is a hospital where unequal care for childbearing black women is starkly evident.
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Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS, is the president of The New York Academy of Medicine and former president and CEO of Susan G. Komen. She is a physician executive and one of the nation’s pre-eminent leaders in health and health care.