Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children’s ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Mo. It opened in 1918, but like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.
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Most Black hospitals in the South closed long ago, yet their impact endures
In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all but dried up.
