Record Number Complaints Against Southern Hospitals is Filed with HEW Department
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April 14, 1965

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Record Number Complaints Against Southern Hospitals is Filed with HEW Department, 1965. 5ca487e0-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/658667d1-da96-41ce-a5c1-d2aadb87bdb1/record-number-complaints-against-southern-hospitals-is-filed-with-hew-department. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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10 Columbus Circle : New York, N.¥. 10019 9 JUdson 6.8397 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund PRESS RELEASE te 7 President r. Allan Knight Chalmers FOR RELEASE Wednesday April 14, 1965 ae RECORD NUMBER COMPLAINTS AGAINST SOUTHERN HOSPITALS IS FILED WITH HEW DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON--=A»record number of complaints against "discriminatory practices in ¥ federally assisted hospitals in six southern states” has been filed with thesDepartment of Health, Education and Welfare. Joint announcement. was made here today by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense andeEducational Fund, Inc., two separate but closely associated organizations. Messzs Frank Pohlhaus, counsel of the NAACP's Washington Bureau and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund re~ quested that "appropiate action be taken io insure immediate com pliar ce with the nondiscrimination provisions of Title 6 of the Civil RighEE Act of 1964," : ie F ‘The attorneys asked HEW Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze ‘ees up further payments (of government monies) pending investigation of this complaint and compliance of Title 6. This complaint brings to a total 78 southern hospitals cited ea for discriminatory practices during the last three months. as Florida leads in this most recent complaint, with 17 hospitals : Se Bae: cited; Alabama has 11; Louisiana has four; Tenn., two 3 Georgia one and Virginia, one. rs ae A summary of discriminatory practices outlined cpecge te charBes such as a statement by Philip T. Sharples, president of the Board of the Good Samaritan Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida, Rage 2 Negroes are not admitted to Good Samaritan because "costs would go up and income would come down," Mr, Sharples said, os If the white wards of Jackson-Madison County Genera Negro:first flootiar Negro patients are placed in the corcidors.” Other complaint extended over a wide range of abuses, ex- clusions and preferential treatment, =306: Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487