We found that in hospital care, as in public education, separate usually means unequal.The hospitals in which Black people account for a large share of inpatients have relatively meager facilities ...

Racially segregated hospital care has produced more deaths and life-threatening hospitalizations for White and Black patients alike, according to a study published Wednesday.. Writing in JAMA ...

A white developer’s decision to call a new St. Louis facility the Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital has been met by a strong backlash. ST. LOUIS — While segregation was still casting its ...

Virginia Union University plans to tear down the old Richmond Community Hospital, the city's first Black-owned hospital, as part of a $40 million development project. Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH ...

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

Many old buildings at a New York City hospital are in ruins, but it played a key role in the battle against tuberculosis, which killed 5.6 million people in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th ...