Short Term Significance
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This hospital inspired many Blacks to become educated and capable physicians."By 1920 approxiametely two hundred black hospitals were in operation, and Provident Hospital was one of the most highly regarded. One of the few black hospitals then accredited by national medical organizations, it became a renowned center for the training of black physicians and races." -Vanessa Northington Gamble
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The success that followed the creation of the hospital sparked the integration of medical staff throughout the country during the early 1900's."The history of the short-lived Provident Hospital project broadens our understanding of the impact of issues of race on the development of American Medicine and makes plain the obstacles and tensions inherent in black hospital reform and in black medical education during the 1920s and 1930s." -Vanessa Northington Gamble
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Provident allowed African-Americans to receive quality healthcare which they had been previously denied by white hospitals.
"Provident hospital emerged as an institution crucial to the lives of residents of Chicago's south side. Its doors were opened to black patients at times when those of other hospitals in Chicago were closed to them. The hospital also functioned as a center for black civic activities."
-Vanessa Northington Gamble |
