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 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]
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 2024-05-02.
- ^ a b Barbara Bates (1992). Bargaining for life. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 303–304. ISBN 978-0-8122-3120-5. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ^ "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.