Author: Debra L. BuckPublisher:
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Category : Hospital and community
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Closing of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: Debra L. BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital and community
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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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.
The History and Development of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: An Interpretation of the Significance of Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Author: Numa P. AdamsThe 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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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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Lost Treasures of St. Louis
Author: Cameron CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681060477
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A kaleidoscope of bygone places, events, and items once identified with the Gateway City, Lost treasures of St. Louis captures the essence of cherished times that still resonate with St. Louisans. Celebrate dancing to Ike and Tina at the Club Imperial, Bowling for Dollars at the Arena, taking in movies at Ronnie's Drive-In, and myriad other pastimes enjoyed through the years ... Gone but not forgotten, all of the subjects featured will elicit nostalgia and reveal how the past has shaped our city"--Page 4 of cover.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Holding Bureaucrats Accountable
Author: Lana SteinPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817305192
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Lana Stein looks at the taxing question of how to make bureaucracies responsible to elected officials Stein carefully scrutinizes St. Louis bureaucracy, distinguishing those agencies that are responsive to elected officials from those that are not. On the responsive side, for example, she cites the Traffic Division of the Department of Streets, which has erected about 1,000 four-way stop signs (compared to 34 in Kansas City) because the aldermen, responding to parents concerned about the safety of their street-crossing kids, demanded them. Similarly, she finds that building inspectors are responsive to aldermen's requests that individual buildings receive priority attention. To tenants worried about unsafe living conditions, that's an important and meaningful gesture
Closing the Quality Gap
Author: Kaveh G. ShojaniaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781587632594
Category : Disaster hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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