Provident Hospital

CTL-E-0377 · Institution · other · 1891–present (as institution)

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams in 1891 to train Black nurses and provide care denied by white institutions.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001, BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:provident-hospital, CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-212; source research type(s): Hospital/civic institution, institution.

Sources

Institutional histories of Provident Hospital; secondary biographical sources (accessed 2026-09-28)
Institutional and popular histories of Provident Hospital (accessed 2026-09-28)
https://www.chicagohistory.org/provident-hospital/
https://www.galter.northwestern.edu/news/who-was-austin-curtis-md

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