Sydenham Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
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- Hospitals
Associated Locale
- United States
Associated Locale
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Sydenham Hospital annual staff dinner, 1956:cover (Sydenham Hospital)
- found: Wikipedia, March 24, 2015(Sydenham Hospital was a healthcare facility in Harlem, New York, which operated between 1892 and 1980; Sydenham began in a Harlem brownstone house in 1892 as an African American hospital; around 1924 the hospital moved to a new building, in 1944 the staff doctors were all white despite serving a mostly African American community; soon after, it was the first hospital to have a full desegregated interracial policy with six African American Trustees and twenty African Americans on staff; it was New York City's first full-service hospital to hire African-American doctors) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenham_Hospital
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- 2011-04-19: new
- 2015-03-25: revised
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