Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, originally Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and School for Nurses, opened in 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 1512 Lombard Street with had 15 beds.[1][2] It was the city's first hospital for African Americans and the second hospital in the United States for African Americans.[3] In 1897, it graduated its first two nurses. It expanded and in 1948 merged with Mercy Hospital to form Mercy-Douglass Hospital in hopes of improving both of their both of their financials conditions.[3] Mercy-Douglas closed in 1973.[4]
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Nathan F. Mossell served as chief of staff.[5] His brother Aaron Albert Mossell was the hospital's lawyer.
William Albert Sinclair was its financial secretary beginning in 1904. He wrote Aftermath of Slavery.[6]
John P. Turner completed his residency at the hospital in 1906 and, then, joined its staff.[7] He became the chief of its surgury department in 1935 and the president of staff in 1938, serving in that position until he retired as an emeritus surgeon and president emeritus of the staff of Mercy-Douglass Hospital in 1948.[8][9]
Turner's son-in-law, Frederick Douglass Stubbs, became the chief of thoracic surgery at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital in 1938.[10] Time (magazine) featured Stubb's groundbreaking use of thoracoplasty at Douglass Hospital in April 1940.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School". University Archives and Records Center.
- ^ Gamble, Vanessa Northington (1995). Making a place for ourselves : the Black hospital movement, 1920-1945. New York : Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19-507889-3. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
- ^ a b Barbara Bates (1992). Bargaining for life. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 303–304. ISBN 978-0-8122-3120-5. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
- ^ "The Rise and Decline of African-American Hospitals in Philadelphia". Hidden City Philadelphia. October 2, 2020.
- ^ "Who's who in Colored America". Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. March 15, 1927 – via Google Books.
- ^ Seminary, Andover Theological (March 15, 1908). "General Catalogue of the Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts" – via Google Books.
- ^ "John P. Turner, Doctor born". African American Registry. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
- ^ "John P. Turner Dies, Doctor and Educator". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 16, 1958. p. 26. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
- ^ Cobb, W Montague (1959). "John Patrick Turner; 1885-1958". Journal of the National Medical Association. 51 (1): 160–161. PMC 2641477. PMID 13642040.
- ^ "Dr. Frederick Douglas Stubbs, M.D., F.A.C.S." CHAAMP (Consortium on the History of African Americans in the Medical Professions). University of Virginia. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ Mahoney, Eleanor (January 14, 2018). "Frederick D. Stubbs (1906-1947) •". Black History. Retrieved October 24, 2024.