The six panelists, four of whom are Black, will review the circumstances surrounding the care Dr. Susan Moore received for the coronavirus at IU Health North last month. Moore said in a widely circulated video that a doctor denied her medicine, ignored her pain and sought to discharge her prematurely because she was Black.
In addition to looking into the circumstances involving Moore’s case, the panel will explore “overall patient care protocols, communication and procedures,” officials for IU Health said in an emailed statement.
A former Indiana University School of Medicine faculty member will co-chair the panel.
A few weeks after making the video, Moore, 52, herself a doctor, died at a different area hospital.
Many have pointed to her case as yet another example of disparities in the way the health care system treats Black and other non-white patients. It also shined an unflattering spotlight on IU Health, the state’s largest hospital system.