Administrators at Abington Memorial Hospital have acknowledged that hospital supervisors were wrong to prevent black employees from assisting in the delivery of a pregnant patient's child at the request of the patient?s husband. Hospital administrators have called the incident ?morally reprehensible?, and said that the hospital should have followed its own policy, which mandates that care be provided on a nondiscriminatory basis. In order to address the situation, hospital management has apologized to those employees who were affected by the incident and hired consultants to assist in the handling of these issues.
See "Hospital Apologizes for Barring Black Workers", The New York Times, October 5, 2003