Nurse alumni of Homer G. Phillips Hospital, a public hospital that served St. Louis Black community for more than 40 years, are suing a developer for trademark infringement.
Mayor Tishaura Jones, state Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins and Alderwoman Dwinderlin Evans say they agree with residents that naming a small hospital for Homer G. Phillips threatens his legacy.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was internationally known as a state-of-the-art institution and for training Black medical graduates, when few other places did so. The hospital, located in the Ville, was open from 1937 to 1979.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was internationally known for being a state-of-the-art institution and for the wide array of training opportunities at a time when few academic institutions in the U.S. offered training for Black medical graduates.
Some north St. Louis residents are against a plan to name a new medical building Homer G. Phillips Hospital. They say the three-bed facility built by developer Paul McKee isn’t fit to be named after the training hospital that served the Black community for decades.