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...group of white and black doctors built Flint-Goodridge Hospital, a solid, severe, sun-flooded plant, with 100 beds, complete X-ray and clinical facilities for 30,000 patients a year. As superintendent they chose a Negro real-estate agent and insurance salesman, bland, 35-year-old Albert W. Dent. When Mr. Dent moved his family and furniture into a second-floor ward, Flint-Goodridge had neither patients nor staff. Most Negroes thought a hospital a place to come and die in. Of the 35 Negro doctors in New Orleans, only about 20 were graduates of approved medical schools...
...Dent's aid came the late, great Gynecologist Charles Jeff Miller, who gathered a staff of white experts from his own Tulane, and from Louisiana State University Medical Center. The white doctors took charge of the hospital's various departments, worked in the clinics with the Negro doctors, who had no rank. When the colored doctors were trained, they were moved up into the white doctors' places. Flint-Goodridge, says Mr. Dent, has fewer staff squabbles than many all-white hospitals in New Orleans...
...patients to come, Mr. Dent organized venereal disease lectures in factories and clubhouses, started mothers' clubs, ran lawn parties, sent nurses into poor homes. To compete with the grannies, who delivered 20% of all Negro mothers, he offered confinement and hospital care for $10, lowest fee charged by midwives. Result: fewer colored women than white now use midwives in New Orleans, a situation probably unique...
Flint-Goodridge also boasts the cheapest, most complete hospital insurance plan in the U. S. Cost: one cent a day. Most similar schemes, covering three weeks' hospitalization, charge at least three cents a day. If he can convince his doctors, Mr. Dent will soon start a two-cent-a-day plan to provide complete medical care as well...
...into one of a row of board huts-not much bigger than bathing houses but thatched over to give them a romantic air-and settled down to honeymoon. By June 1 Promoter Washburn expects to have enough huts to accommodate 50 handpicked couples every two weeks, which will scarcely dent the application list...