Provident Hospital

"Provident Hospital and Training School was established in response to discriminatory practices in Chicago's medical community. In 1889, the black population in Chicago totaled 15,000 residents. Few hospitals provided medical care to the black community. Black doctors had no facilities available for their patients, nor were there any opportunities for training black nurses. With the assistance of a local black minister and other prominent Chicagoans, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams opened Provident Hospital and Training School in 1891 to address the lack of quality health care available to African Americans."
-The Provident Foundation
-The Provident Foundation
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" Langston Hughes, in his poem "Interne at Provident," captured the importance of the hospital to both black patients and black health care professionals. " -Vanessa Northington Gamble, The Provident Hospital Project
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Interne at Provident
By: Langston Hughes "Learning skills of surgeons, Brown and wonderful with longing, To cure ills of Africa, Democracy, And mankind, Also ills quite common, Among all who stand on two feet Brown hands Black hands Golden hands in white coats" |
A New Provident Hospital
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"He [Richard M. Pearce] noted that the project would provide black physicians and nurses with atleast one clinical training program that equalled those available to their white colleages"- Vanessa Northington Gamble, The Provident Hospital Project
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Provident Hospital and Nursing Training Program
"The Provident Hospital and Nursing Training Program, founded in 1891 in Chicago, was one of the first nursing programs in the country open to black women...Most the nursing schools either refused to admit black woman or had strict quotas allowing only a limited number of black woman". -Provident Hospital A Living Legacy
"The legal papers were drawn up in 1891 for "Provident Hospital and Training School Association" and the charter stated: "The object for which it is formed is to maintain a hospital and training school for nurses in the City of Chicago, Illinois, for the gratuitous treatment of the medical and surgical diseases of the sick poor." -The Provident Foundation
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