J. E. Bush Memorial Hospital

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The J. E. Bush Memorial Hospital was founded by physician Fred Thomas Jones in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 23, 1918. The hospital, established with a staff of four house physicians, was briefly named for Booker T. Washington. The hospital was named for African-American statesman John E. Bush. The hospital closed in 1927.

References

  • Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Public Policy and the Black Hospital: From Slavery to Segregation to Integration (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994), 49-50.

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