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Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. It continued to operate after the desegregation of city hospitals, and continued to serve the Black community of St. Louis until its closure in 1979.
Alexian Brothers Hospital, 3933 South Broadway. St. Alexius Hospital was an American hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1869 by the Catholic order of the Alexian Brothers, a healing order of Catholic men. In 1870, it began operation as a two-bed facility. In 1874, a larger building was erected.
The second hospital, at 4117 West Belle Place, was open from 1893 to 1930. [5] The third hospital at 6150 Oakland Avenue was a Spanish revival building; [2] it opened in 1930. [4] In 1985, the first Saint Louis Crisis Nursery was established when a branch of Deaconess Hospital was bought out. [6]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch also questioned the legitimacy of the women's claims, citing hospital records that state Price's daughter was born at a different hospital from the one in question.
Firmin Desloge plaque. In February 1930, Saint Louis University received a $1 million bequest ($18,239,044 today [3]) from the estate of Firmin Vincent Desloge, [4] a member of the Desloge Family in America, who provided in his will, funds for a hospital to serve St. Louis University and to replace the old St. Mary's Hospital, both in St. Louis. [5]
The steep fall in St. Louis's population exacerbated the project's vacancy problem—instead of growing from 850,000 in the 1940s to 1 million in 1970 as projected, the city lost 30 percent of its residents in that timespan due to suburbanization and white flight, [11] as well as 11,000 manufacturing jobs in an overall shift from a blue collar ...
In February 1930, St. Louis University received a $1 million bequest ($13 million in 2010 dollars) from the estate of Firmin Vincent Desloge [7] a member of the Desloge Family in America, who provided in his will, funds for a hospital to serve St. Louis University and to replace the old St. Mary's Hospital, both in St. Louis. [8]
The "One Dollar Healthy Homes" initiative sold vacant and abandoned homes or lots for $1 per parcel to the people with the best plan for the seriously blighted property that had been acquired by ...