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Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. A Black American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans.
Philadelphia portal; Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon. [1] In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher.
The emergency room entrance at Pennsylvania Hospital at 9th and Spruce streets. Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street in Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, and was the second established public hospital (first was Bellevue) but had the first surgical ...
Charity Hospital sustained severe flood damage during Hurricane Katrina and was closed. [2] 1751 Pennsylvania Hospital: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Private, non-profit hospital founded by Ben Franklin. [3] 1771 New York Hospital
Williams garnered financial support from Chicago’s Black community and White philanthropists, such as Philip Armour, T.B. Blackstone, and George Pullman, to open a twelve bed hospital on Chicago’s south side that would train Black nurses. [3] The hospital would later move to a larger facility in 1898. [2]
Thomas Story Kirkbride (July 31, 1809 – December 16, 1883) was a physician, alienist, and hospital superintendent for the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and primary founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the organizational precursor to the American Psychiatric Association.
The Perelman School of Medicine (commonly known as Penn Med) is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private, Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia. Founded in 1765, [1] the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States. Today, the Perelman School of Medicine is a major center ...
Tabernacle Community Hospital and Health Center (1972-1977), located at 5421 S. Morgan Avenue, was a short-lived, 175-bed hospital serving the African-American community of Chicago, Illinois. It was founded and run by Dr. Louis Rawls , pastor of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, on the south side of Chicago, from 1941 until his death in ...