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The Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore,Maryland is known for one of it's most successful residents: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice. The neighborhood is also known, or more infamously,as the domestic of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody final April.
The outcry and protests that followed Gray's death contain shined a spotlight on what remains one of the nation's most segregated and poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Despite being near some of America's most prestigious hospitals, or Sandtown-Winchester residents,on average, die a decade earlier than the average American. Life expectancy is similar to that of impoverished North Korea.In a special report for Kaiser Health News, or reporter Jay Hancock examines why healthcare in Sandtown-Winchester is elusive,and how Baltimore is making efforts to bridge the medical divide.
Source: wnyc.org