The Rise And Fall Of St Louis's Black Hospital | The Color of Medicine | Documentary Central 

I am a recently retired black physician who found this presentation awesome! These nurses and doctors fought the battle for me, and I KNOW it. I am a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio, and a fellow of Cleveland Clinic. During those days I was the only black in all my classes in high school, college, med school, and residency. Things went well for me because I did not know any better. Many professors would ask why I was in biology, med school, and even Cleveland Clinic, and my answer was always the same: "For the same reason you are here!" When it was time to apply to medical school, I was told by Howard and Meharry that if I wasn't an Alpha, Kappa, or Q, not to waste my time. So, I went to Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland. I never knew of Homer G. Phillips and rarely knew any black doctors in my training. When I started my private practice in Internal Medicine, all my patients were white! In fact, I was the only black in my local hospital (90% were Indian and Philippino), but obviously I was used to it. In my retirement I am inspired to mentor blacks interested in medicine so they would not have to fight that fight alone. My parents and family were my greatest supporters and encouragers.

this is great! As a young MSW in the St.Louis medical Community in '84, I did not (could not ) understand what people talked about when "the closing of HGP. I am so glad to understand more about what so many of my co-workers and mentors were talking about. You see things differently and appreciate more when you are 62 I guess. Thank you!

I was born in Homer G. Phillips in 1966. This is an amazing story!

I was born at Homer G in 1957. My family (grandparents, mother, aunts, uncles and cousins) lived in that neighborhood. I remember Annie Malone, Sumner HS and the general area. I also remember the annual parade that was a huge community event. My grandparents lived on Cottage Ave.

After medical school in Mississippi, I went to St. Louis for Internship, Residency and Fellowship. I am white, many of the blacks in the city were from the south, so I had much more in common and gravitated to them. So many of my friends and patients spoke of "Homer G Hospital". All spoke with great reverence about the institution. Thank you so much for this historical work. I would love to spend a week listening to each one of these true Pioneers. They are true Giants of their field !!!

OmGOD…. What a fascinating video!!!! I immensely LOVED it.. so much valuable HISTORY❤ I had to shed a tear or 2 .. those dedicated nurses blew my mind ❤️ may GOD bless all that was employed at HOMER GPHILLIPS HOSPITAL 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

I was a patient as a young child who was burned at age 3. I was in Homer G Phillips Hosp for almost 2 yrs. And Here I stand today at 63yrs old and VERY VERY GRATEFUL and has lived a beautiful FULL life after countless surgeries, skin drafts, and 2 PRAYING loving parents . Thanks to ALL of the GREAT EDUCATED, professional , caring, Drs. and Nurses who was there for ME many many day and nites.

As a St. Louis native, thank you for this. So many legends in this documentary. My mom went to Sumner in the Ville.

As a St. Louis native I found this video to be so very well documented and compelling. I always wanted to know more about Homer G Phillips. He was totally murdered no different from MLK and X.

I was born at Homer G in 1969. My sister in 1971. Still in St Louis. The new Homer G on Jefferson Ave is really nice

Great Documentary! My mom, aunts and uncle were all born at Homer G. Phillips I just sent this video to my mom. Dr. Nash was my pediatrician also.

Thank you so much. I graduated from Barnes Jewish College of Nursing in 2008 and have been working there since. I never heard of this hospital. This documentary meant a lot. Thank you so much!

Homer G Phillip's is not forgotten. We need a new HGP .Both of my Aunt's were R.N"s and both worked at Homer G and State Hospital . Both of them retired from nursing after many yrs of caring for the public and doing private duty. They were wives and mother's, professional' woman, dressed in snow white starched uniforms, snow white from head to toe. Our mother and her sister my aunt worked at Formadeloge Hospital in the hospital environment also. They were housekeepers until retirement. Neither of those two aunts are with us anymore RIP. They all are and were strong beautiful woman inside and outward that made the hardest things look easier than what they were . I call them blessing's, Queens 👑 . Trying to see if any of these nurses are my aunties on the earlier video's. I did CNA work part time for 12 yrs, being also inspired. Thank U for this video, I recognize some of the ladies. Cheer's ladies and gentlemen because the field of medicine and hospital 🏥 medical care and nursing takes special kinds of gifted people to be a humanitarian and professional care giver's. Thanking all of you for every life you touched and helped to save .The best because their ❤️'s were in it. Truth be told. Blessing's !!!

To the Homer G. Philips alumni, both then and now, I must say a huge word of thanks for what you do, and still doing now. Huge shout-out to the late Mr Homer G Philips, for not just talking the talk. You did the work to make it real. Your life's work is not in vain. Your memory will always be brought back to the fullest. Many thanks..

I really enjoyed this documentary. Thank you it’s always so nice to learn about history of black folks in medicine and the community behind them

Extremely, interesting & LOVE expanding my history! Though being Cuban American, i can remember being kicked out of numerous establishments in the south. Being a child, that us soo confusing!!

Wowww...Dr. Smiley was my mom's OBGYN. Mrs. Moore (nurse) is the mom of my close friends from childhood. We lived across the street from each other. I spent so many days hanging at their house. Happy Memories. ❤️

I was born at Peoples Hospital located on Locust Street in St. Louis. The building continues to stand.

I thoroughly ENJOYED this documentary. I was especially touched by how many educated, proud, professional people spoke (and sounded educated, proud and professional). TG, these historians were able to be captured and filmed for this very historically important documentary. AND, I would only hope, that EVERYONE would watch this and internalize its significance in our history. Their intelligence resonated in the way they spoke. Not one of these intelligent, educated, proud people would have ever thought, for one second, to speak any kind of "ghetto" and expect respect, like you see everywhere today. Amazing people and amazing history here. Thank you for producing this and sharing it for everyone to cherish.

I was Born August of 1975 IN Homer G Phillips Hospital....Glad to be part of that history!!!

I was born at Barnes Hospital during that time in history . My mother gave to triplets and twins! I am one of those triplets!!😮

This a very informative and enlightening video.

My grandmother stayed in Homer G Philips. I couldn't sleep at night when I stayed overnight with grandmother. But Very Beautiful Built. I loved the pictures.

Fantastic! Informative! Factual ! Heartfelt ! Significant African American History. MMM

So sad und unfair how it was closed! 😢😠

My family definitely remembers going to Homer G Philips Hospital for our medical care in late 1960s. Both my brother and I were circumcised there at late ages of 5 and 6 years old. I still carry surgery scar my left wrist from injury that was sticked by Doctor at Hospital.

1:36 in made me cry.. nurses like this are rare. Dedicated to caring for the sick and needy. This is a fantastic documentary this world right now needs medical staff with hearts of gold. People share this video and let the world know the evil that reigns over the medical system.

The black doctors in this documentary were so civic minded. They knew that the work that they were doing was ground breaking and these black physicians never left the black community. Dr. Mary A Tillman was my pediatrician until she retired in 2010 and I was 21 years old. Dr. Jackson delivered me and my identical twin sister back in the late 80's. Much love and respect to these nurses and doctors they have definitely shaped my life and career as I am an RN now.

I grew up in the 1960s-1970s next door to a wonderful woman who was a certified registered nurse anesthetist at both City and Homer G. I remember hearing her tell stories about her work experiences. In the 1960s she (white) worked at City and was on call for Homer G. She got called in a lot to help out at Homer G. But I also remember 1960s era stories from her that apparently, according to her, black nurses from Homer G were not allowed to help out at City. City was white only at the time. There’s a reason why Homer G existed.

This reminded me of Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in my childhood neighborhood of Baltimore (Sandtown).

Amazing & Thanks for this informative video. It was very fulfilling😇

This was way before my time but this makes me feel so proud!

This documentary was sent to me the week after I finished The Warmth of Other Suns. She hand no idea that I read that book. It’s mentioned in the documentary. This vid is an extension of that book. If you enjoyed this documentary then it’s a must that you read The Warmth of Other Suns. I recommend it to you the same way I recommended it to the one that sent this vid to me. This hospital and staff is the epitome of Black Excellence 🖤

I remember mom taking my grandmother to the clinic on the south of Homer G back in the late 80s

Excellent, wonderful 👏🏾 Bravo

I was born at Homer G Phillips

Interesting history, can you also investigate current Black owned hospitals across the United States today also do an expose on why it is hard for foreign trained Black doctors to get Residency in the United States and how we can circumvent that, thanks.

Dr Nash took care of me being born with spina bifida❤

What was the reason for the closing HGP Hospital?

After watching this production, not to mention many many other truly liberating and enlightening fact based documentaries like this,they leave me with a gigantic "Just imagine " moment, consider how powerful, how much further ahead of the curve the U.S.A. would be today if the radical prejudice mentality could be dismissed, from NASA to Nuturing, if the population could have found a want, to work with, instead of the obstannent, regretful history that is America today. My only wish today is to have it finally come to pass, NOW! I'm not saying you have to LOVE everybody! Just work "Together" for the greater good and drop the pretense.

This is the actual manifestation of black excellence. This is what we need to be teaching our kids and fighting for our community.

What happened to us?

❤ Dr. Helen Nash was My Pediatrician and I took My Son to Her Office Also. 😮

My uncle died in Homer G Phillips in March 1979 and the it closed a few months later

❤ Dr. Mary Tillman is a Great M.D. 😊

I was born in People’s Hospital in St. Louis in 1946

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Did that hospital is Deaconess Hospital Long Gone

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I'll never view Delmar and Euclid the same!😢

So I get this headline in my news feed " Honor or Cultural Appropriation Protests over Hospital Name?" and I go to look it up on RU-vid to double check the story and RU-vid has NOTHING on the protests. but it does have some videos on the history of the building. also nothing on the man the building is named for. What it makes me realize is that Homer G. Phillips is a name not well recorded in history. Im not shore how many people even know who that is. Im surprised enough people know the history of the name to protest against it. and what does it mean that people don't consider Homer G. Phillips a man worthy of being memorized ? the bottom line 1. New was not important enough to come up in a video search result having less Value then the Trump investigation, the book author who was stabbed or the woman who died in that car crash. 2. The name is not one I have heard of before and I had to look it up It makes me wonder how history, schools, media, society treats , remembers, knows, cares about names. I wonder if I laid out a pile of flash cards with names and faces on them who would be able to correctly tell us about that person and how each person would rank on some sort of list. I bet there are just tons of names in history we don't know , and I sort of want to chart them out. I hypothesize that familiarity comes with nationality, cultural heritage and media coverage . if we pushed people hard enough they would not be able to name people who have never been on TV or in movies, who have not been on TV or movies in the past 30 years, who existed out side of there own cultural background or who lived in a nation other then there own.

Today smarter Americans escape Jim Crow USA to countries with human rights and sane laws.

I worked at home G. I'm a white guy mer lots of nice people working there.

Amerikkka will continue to crumble and fall for such sins and crimes against humanity.

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Thank you god for the internet. This is taking forever. 😂😂😂😂😂 I will read Wikipedia.

This seems interesting.. Thanks for the upload..💖

Yes, that was stolen from us in general and now they just built a little Homer G. Philips hospital on Jefferson & Cass! But it shows why people are so jealous of blacks making a change in our own community and proud of talent we provided. This was one of the greatest learning facility to me in the world 🌎. 🤎💯🙏🎞️

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