African American Graduates of JMC
Algernon Brashear Jackson, MD (Class of 1901)
John Hume Miller, MD (Class of 1903)
Henry McKee Minton, MD (Class of 1906)
Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses
Other Graduates of the Early Years
Years of Change and Challenge
Opening Doors: James H. Robinson, M.D.
Cora LeEthel Christian (Class of 1971)
The Faces of Jefferson Today
Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses
Philadelphia’s second "Negro hospital" was co-founded by Jeffersonians Dr. Henry Minton and Dr. Algernon Jackson in 1907 at 17th and Fitzwater Streets. In 1919 the hospital moved to a larger structure, formerly an Episcopal Divinity School at 50th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, and operated there until 1948.
In 1948, Mercy Hospital merged with the city’s first hospital for African Americans, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and School for Nurses (founded in 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania's first black medical school graduate, Dr. Nathan F. Mossell) to form Mercy-Douglass. Soon afterward the combined hospital built a new and fully modern facility. Through much of its existence this institution was largely funded by the community it served, until its closing in 1973.
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Mercy Hospital (later Mercy-Douglass)
Mercy Hospital was housed in this structure from 1919-1948 and was located in West Philadelphia. A modern nine-story building replaced it in 1955. |