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In 1895, Dr. Nathan Mossell est. the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, the first black hospital in Philadelphia. The second private black hospital in the city Est. in 1907, Mercy Hospital would “meet the objectives for which it [Douglass] was organized — that is giving opportunities to Negro doctors to get incalculable benefits from hospital practice.” The two hospitals operated independently for the next 40-odd years.
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