Houston Negro Hospital

The Houston Negro Hospital, now called Riverside General Hospital and still in operation, was created in 1926 in order to accommodate the growing population of African American population in and around Houston Texas. The Hospital was the first nonprofit hospital for Black patients in Houston, and was a place for well trained African American doctors to work that couldn't admit patience to "Black wards" in other hospitals about the area in those times.

   In 1918, Joseph S. Cullinan, a well to do man in Houston, answer the appeal for assistance from several Black doctors,"R.O. Roett, Charles Jackson, B.J. Covington, Henry E. Lee and F. F. Stone", and established a fund to erect a fifty-bed hospital. he hired Maurice J. Sullivan as an architect to design the new hospital, as well as to develop a master plan for the site, construction began in 1925.
   The Houston Negro Hospital holds a particularly significant place in the history of both the Black community and medical community in Houston and Texas, being the first nonprofit hospital for African Americans, and creating a place where well trained African American doctors could work freely in admitting patience.
   The hospital is still in operation, if you was to visit now you could receive medical care as well as visit a national registered place of historical significance. 

http://www.riversidegeneralhospital.org/getpage.php?name=houston&sub=About%20Us http://www.history.uh.edu/cph/tobearfruit/story_1900-1926_section09.html http://www.Blackpast.org/aaw/houston-negro-hospital-riverside-general-hospital-1926