Provident Hospital of Cook County is a public hospital in Chicago, Illinois that was the first African-American-run hospital in the United States. Provident Hospital was founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams after Emma Reynolds, a Chicago woman, was denied admission to Cook County School of Nursing because she was Black. Williams garnere…
Provident Hospital of Cook County is a public hospital in Chicago, Illinois that was the first African-American-run hospital in the United States. Provident Hospital was founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams after Emma Reynolds, a Chicago woman, was denied admission to Cook County School of Nursing because she was Black. 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. The hospital would later move to a larger facility in 1898. The support of philanthropists mainly stemmed from the fact that it required a healthy workforce to sustain their businesses, but their Black employees were denied medical assistance at most medical facilities in the city.
Location: 550 E. 51st Street · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Opened: 1891 as Provident Hospital and Training School · Reopened in 1993 as Provident Hospital of Cook County
Funding: Public hospital
Affiliated university: Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Midwestern University
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