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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The 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
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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.
An Interpretation of the Significance of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: Numa P. AdamsA Source of Pride, a Vision of Progress
Author: Ezelle Sanford (III.)Publisher:
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Category : African American nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This dissertation documents and contextualizes the history of Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1937-1979), a segregated African American municipal teaching hospital located in St. Louis's historic Ville neighborhood. A hard-won political concession in the Progressive-era turned New Deal project, Homer G. emerged in the mid-twentieth century as the nation's largest segregated hospital. It provided health care for Black St. Louisans while training many medical specialists, nurses, and allied health professionals. By the time of its closure in 1979, however, the facility's infrastructure and quality of care had significantly declined. Yet hundreds unsuccessfully mobilized to protect the hospital. After its closure, Homer G. became the face of the nation's Black and public hospital closing crisis. Employing extensive archival, oral historical, and informal ethnographic research, this project is the first scholarly study documenting Homer G.'s history. More than institutional history, this dissertation excavates the hospital as a case study tracing the largely understudied transition from segregated to desegregated health facilities. Contrary to the broad civil rights agenda to expand access to public accommodations, this transition left many Black communities without the hospitals in which they took so much pride. This project extends the work of David Barton Smith and Vanessa Gamble, by centering African Americans in the developing political economy of health care as we understand it today. Ultimately, the dissertation analyzes the history of segregation from a new perspective, that of American health care, recasting it as a history of contradictions and paradoxes. This study of the uneven implementation, duration, and heavy-handed eradication of segregated health care, elucidates how Black community members, White municipal leaders, and medical professionals of both races, negotiated the complex terrain of racial segregation where the stakes were high. Lives and the overall health of Black St. Louisans lay on the line. These actors made complicated, often contradictory, claims which prioritized short-term gains over long-term efforts for equality.This project traces four key themes: segregation and American medical education; memory, and legacy formation; health and municipal politics; and hospitals and African American communities. It engages with and contributes to twentieth century history of medicine, African American and urban histories.
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
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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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Ain't But a Place
Author: Gerald Lyn EarlyPublisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
This collection of fiction and poetry, memoirs and autobiography, history and journalism illuminates the African American experience in St. Louis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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 American General Hospital
Author: Diana E. LongPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501737066
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This collection of ten essays by leading scholars in the social history of medicine provides a window into the world of the hospital, exploring the increasing complexity of both its internal and external dynamics as well as the relationship between the two. An introductory essay describes and evaluates the shifting balance between the hospital's moral and medical purposes, tracing the social, technical, physical, and medical developments that have continually shaped the image and activities of the general hospital from 1800 to the 1980s. Part One of the book places American general hospitals in the larger context of their regional, ethnic, religious, and racial communities. It contains four essays, including two case studies of local hospitals-one urban, the other rural-in transition, a photographic essay of life in community hospitals, and an account of the attempt to move black hospitals into the mainstream during the years 1920 to 1945. Part Two focuses on the professional communities within the hospital, Four essays explore the impact of technology on the modern hospital, science and the nursing profession, the changing education of hospital administrators, and the coming of age, in the 1960s, of the first hospital workers' union. A concluding article addresses crucial public policy issues and consider s prospects for the future of the American general hospital.