Left Fighting for Air at Virtua Mount Holly Hospital: Perdisha “Para” Champion
About this episode
This episode examines the death of Perdisha “Para” Champion and the unanswered questions surrounding her care at Virtua Mount Holly Hospital.
In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls: The Cases They Ignored, we examine the death of twenty-eight-year-old Perdisha “Para” Champion and the questions her family says still remain about what happened inside Virtua Mount Holly Hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Through a direct interview with Para’s mother, Sophia Shannon, this episode follows the final hours before her daughter’s death and the anguish that followed. Sophia says she watched Para experience severe medical distress during a night that should have ended in care, not loss.What emerges is not only a mother’s grief, but a family’s demand for answers. Sophia does not speak like someone searching for closure. She speaks like a mother who believes her daughter was failed. As this episode traces the timeline she shared, it also steps into a larger and more painful conversation about medical accountability, delayed response, unequal treatment, and the mistrust many Black families already carry into hospital spaces. This is the story of Perdisha “Para” Champion, the mother who refuses to let her name disappear, and the questions that still refuse to go away.If you want a shorter version for platforms with tighter…
People in this episode
Host: Samantha Paul
Guest: Sophia Shannon
Topics covered
- medical accountability
- family grief
- hospital care
- Black families
- mistrust in healthcare
Keywords
- Perdisha Champion
- medical distress
- hospital negligence
- Black healthcare
- family demand for answers
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Virtua Mount Holly Hospital
Places: Mount Holly, New Jersey
More episodes of No Tears For Black Girls
- She Said She Was Scared at 2 AM. By 11:46 AM, Hannah Toby-Dean Was Dead.
- He Posted 693 Bodies on Facebook. Florence County Closed the Case Six Times.
- She Lived In Her Car, Rationed Her Medication, And Died Alone On New Year's Eve. This Is Her Story.
- She Watched Him Kill Her Mother. The DA Let Him Out First.
- She Was 17. She Was Missing. They Called Her A Runaway And Kept It Moving.
- Your House. Your Name. $24.6 Million You Never Owed. | JC's INBOX
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the No Tears For Black Girls podcast page.