Author: Numa P. AdamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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An Interpretation of the Significance of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: Numa P. AdamsThe History and Development of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: The History and Development of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: William H. SinklerPublisher:
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Category : African American nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream
Author: Candace O’ConnorPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082627465X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Nothing about Homer G. Phillips Hospital came easily. Built to serve St. Louis’s rapidly expanding African-American population, the grand new hospital opened its doors in 1937, toward the end of the Great Depression. “Homer G.,” as many called it, joined a burgeoning group of black hospitals amid a national period of institutional segregation and strong racial prejudice nationwide. When the beautiful, up-to-date hospital opened, it attracted more black residents than any other such program in the United States. Patients also flocked to the hospital, as did nursing students who found there excellent training, ready employment, and a boost into the middle class. For decades, the hospital thrived; by the 1950s, three-quarters of African-American babies in St. Louis were born at Homer G. But the 1960s and 1970s brought less need for all-black hospitals, as faculty, residents, and patients were increasingly welcome in the many newly integrated institutions. Ever-tightening city budgets meant less money for the hospital, and in 1979, despite protests from the African-American community, HGPH closed. Years later, the venerated, long-vacant building came to life again as the Homer G. Phillips Senior Living Community. Candace O’Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and dozens of interviews with former staff members to create the first, full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. She also brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital’s namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist who led the effort to build the sorely needed medical facility in the Ville neighborhood.
Public Policy and the Black Hospital
Author: Woodrow JonesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313036225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years. The work examines the political, policy, legal, and philanthropic forces that helped to define the rise, development, and decline of Black hospitals in the United States. Particular discussion is given to the federal Hill-Burton Act of 1946 and the extent to which the legislation impacted Black hospital development. The roles of the Freedman's Bureau, National Medical Association, National Hospital Association, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in the development of Black hospitals is highlighted.
The Closing of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: Debra L. BuckPublisher:
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Category : Hospital and community
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Deluxe Jim Crow
Author: Karen Kruse ThomasPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the U.S. Public Health Service during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Karen Kruse Thomas details how NAACP lawsuits pushed southern states to equalize public services and facilities for blacks just as wartime shortages of health personnel and high rates of draft rejections generated broad support for health reform. Southern Democrats leveraged their power in Congress and used the war effort to call for federal aid to uplift the South. The language of regional uplift, Thomas contends, allowed southern liberals to aid blacks while remaining silent on race. Reformers embraced, at least initially, the notion of "deluxe Jim Crow"--support for health care that maintained segregation. Thomas argues that this strategy was, in certain respects, a success, building much-needed hospitals and training more black doctors. By the 1950s, deluxe Jim Crow policy had helped to weaken the legal basis for segregation. Thomas traces this transformation at the national level and in North Carolina, where "deluxe Jim Crow reached its fullest potential." This dual focus allows her to examine the shifting alliances--between blacks and liberal whites, southerners and northerners, activists and doctors--that drove policy. Deluxe Jim Crow provides insight into a variety of historical debates, including the racial dimensions of state building, the nature of white southern liberalism, and the role of black professionals during the long civil rights movement.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital Homecoming Celebration
Author: Homer G. Phillips Nurses' Alumni AssociationPublisher:
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Category : African American nursing schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674002760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Making a Place for Ourselves
Author: Vanessa Northington GamblePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195078896
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study describes the attempts by black physicians government officials and health care organizations to create and maintain black hospitals in the USA. It emphasizes the central importance of black hospitals in the lives of black physicians.