Summary of Discriminatory Practices at Hospitals Listed in April Letter

    SUMMARY OF DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES 

AT HOSPITALS LISTED IN APRIL 

LETTER 

1. Giles County Hospital and Health Center, Pulaski, Tennessee 

This hospital has sdparate wards for Negro and white 

patients; Negro patients are sometimes placed in the halls 

even though there is free space in white wards. White patients 

are assigned to the top floor and Negro patients to the bottom 

floor, This pattern holds true until there is an overflow, 

Employee dining rooms are segregated. 

2. Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 

This hospital segregates the races in ward facilities 

and provides inferior facilities for Negroes. 
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3. Sty fary's Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida 

This hospital maintains separate wards for Negro and 

white patients, 

4, Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin, Virginia 

This hospital maintains spparate wards and floors 

for Negro and white patients. Semi-private rooms are segregated 

as are dining rooms, lounges and bathrooms. Private rooms an 

the second floor are never assigned to Negroes. Negro nurses 

are restricted to lower level positions. 

5. Lee Memorial Hospital, Ft. Myers, Florida 

Negroes are denied admission to this hospital, except 

for surgery, and only then if a white physician requests their 

admission. 

6. Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, Jackson, Tennessee 

This hospital maintains separate facilities for Negroes 

and whites. The recovery room is segregated, Negro patients 

are always kept on the first floor. When all rooms occupied by 

whites are filled, whites are brought to the first floor and 

Negroes moved to the corridors. Equipment in the Negro section 



is inferior. Negro babies are always brought to the first 

floor for parents to see, whereas white parents are allowed 

to go to the second floor, or the obstetrics ward, to visit the 

babies. There is a separate cafeteria for Negroes downstairs. 

Ward-aids are provided for all floors with the exception of the 

first floor, where Negroes are placed. Segregated hospital 

lounges are maintained. Negroes are required to pay $50.00 

deposit upon entrance to the hospital if they do not have some 

type of hospitalization. This is not required of whites. 

Negroes pay more for the rooms than whites and get inferior 

service. At present a course in nurses aid work is in progress 

at the hospital and no Negroes are enrolled although some 

wanted to participate. 

7. Qrange Memorial Hospital, Orlando, Florida 

All Negro patients are restricted to the second floor 

of the hospital (with the exception of "prominent" Negroes 

who are sometimes given privat cual ot sections of 

the hospital). The me training program and the student 

nurses residence are restricted to whites only. 

8. St. Vincent's Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

This hospital maintains segregated facilities for 

Negroes and whites. 

9. Providence Hospital, Mobile, Alabama 

This hospital segregates Negro and white patients in 

rooms, wards, clinics, and eating places. Lounges, restrooms, 

toilets, and other m also segregated. Negro doctors, 

nurses, and technicians are not employed by the hospital. 

Cualified Negro girls and young women are not admitted to the 

hospital nursing school, 

10. Mobile Infirmary, Mobile, Alabama 

This facility maintains separate facilities of all 

kinds for Negroes and for whites iy 

11. Montgomery Baptist Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama 

This hospital has refused to admit Negroes to medical 

staff membership. It presently requires membership in e County 

medical sdciety for staff membership. The County society ex- 
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_ cludes Negroes. 

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12. Sarah Mayo Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana 

This hospital maintains separate facilities cor Negroes 

and whites. Negro physicians are refused the privilege of 

practising in the hospital, which requires that a physician 

be admitted to the Orleans Parish Medical Society. The Society 

restricts its membership to Caucasians. 

13. Tours Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana 

This hospital maintains separate facilities for Negroes 

and whites. It refuses staff membership to Negro physicians. 

It requires that, to be admitted to hospital privileges, a 

doctor must be a member of the orleans Parish Medical Society. 

The Society does not admit Negroes. 

14. St. Patrick Hospital, Lake Charles, Louisiana 

Negro patients, with the exception of obstetric cases, 

are segregated by being placed at the east end of the hospital 

on the basement floor. Towels and linen for Negro patients 

are segregated from those used by whites. 
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15. _Anniston Memorial Hospital, Anniston, Alabama 

Separate wards are maintained; Negro petients generally 

are placed in a section called Block I. Maternity facilities 

are segregated and those accorded Negroes are inferior, 

16. _Druid City Hos : uscaloosa, Alabama 

This hospital maintains segregated wards, lobbies and 

maternity facilities. Negro facilities are inferior to those 

used by whites. 

17. University Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

Segregated general wards, nurseries, psychiatric wards, 

emergency clinics, waiting rooms, registration desks, cashier 

“lines and cafeterias are maintained. Many of the facilities 

and services for Negroes are grossly inferior to those offered 

whites. Negroes seeking emergency assistance are often treated 

without consideration and relegated to inferior facilities. 

Negroes are excluded from the School of Nursing and other 

education programs as well as restricted to menial positions 

and lower pay. 

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18. Children's Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

Spearate patient care areas are maintained a& well as Salet 

segregated waiting rooms, registration windows and cafeterias. 

Negroes are barred from employment in certain job categories. 

19. Eye Foundation Hospital and Clinic, Birmingham, Alabama 

Negro patients are segregated and receive inferior treat- 

ment and a lower standard of care than whites. The cafeteria 

is segregated. Negro employees are not permitted to use the 

parking lot. Negro employees are excluded from promotion 

opportunities and not eligible for certain jobs. 

20. Crippled Children's Clinic and Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

Negroes are not freely admitted to this hospital and 

when permitted to receive treatment they are segregated in 

patient care areas.» Lunch room and hot meal service are availabl« 

for white employees only. Ne employment opportunities are 

restricted. ~ 

21. Jefferson County Public Health Center, Birmingham, Alabama 

Segregated waiting rooms are maintained. Negroes may 

only attend out patient clinics on days when Negro patients 

are being seen at the several clinics. 

22, Good Samaritan Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida 

This hospital does not admit Negro patients. The presi- 

dent of the hospital Board, Philip T. Sharples, recently stated 

publicly that Negroes would not be admitted because "costs 

would go up and income would come down." 

23, Bethesda Memorial Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida 

Negroes and whites are placed in separate parts of the 

building. 

24. Okaloosa Memorial Hospital, Crestview, Florida 

Negro and white patients are assigned to separate wings 

of the hospital. 

25. Jackson County Hospital, Marianna, Florida 

This hospital assigns patients on the basis of race to 

segregated wards. 

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26. Manatee Veterans Hospital, Bradenton, Florida 

The wards in this hospital are segregated. 

27. Florida Sanitorium and Hospital, Orlando, Florida 

Wards and eating facilities are. segregated. 

28. Morgan Memorial Rehabilitation Facility, Orlando, Florida 

Wards and eating facilities are segregated. 

29. Brevard Hospital, Melbourne, Florida 

Segregated wards are maintained. 

30. Indian River Memorial Hospital, Vero Beach, Florida 

Segregated wards are maintained. 

31. Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Tallahassee, Florida 

Negro patients are not accepted in this hospital. 

32. Santa Rosa County Hospital, Milton, Florida 

Segregated wards are maintained. 

33. Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, Florida 

Segregated wards and other facilities are maintained 

in this hospital. 

34. Americus-Sumter County Hospital, Americus, Georgia 
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pis hospital are rigidly segregated on 

the basis of race. 

35. Fort Walton Beach Hospital, Okaloosa, Florida 

Patients are segregated in separate wards on the basis 

of race. = xh 
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36. Southeast Florida Sanitorium. Lantana, Florida 

Separate wards and wings for Negro and white patients 

are maintained. 

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