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The Cleveland Health Care Legacy
The health legacy in Cleveland is rich in history and worthy of continuing support.
The legacy includes a nursing school founded in 1898 by Dr. Latrobe Motley, one of the earliest black physicians; the near fifty-year struggle by black physicians to gain full privileges in the city’s major established hospitals; the founding of Forest City Hospital in 1954 by black physicians as the city’s only hospital with a truly integrated staff; the founding of the first African American owned and managed HMO, Personal Physician Care of Ohio; and the establishment of the Forest City Hospital Foundation, which has provided scholarship funds for African American medical and dental students who commit to practice in the greater Cleveland area. This fund has also been a major benefactor for the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged, a facility that primarily serves African Americans.
It is our hope that scholarship recipients follow in the footsteps of such renowned doctors as Dr. Edgar Jackson, Dr. Grant Franklin, Dr. Doris Evans, Dr. Jefferson Jones, and Dr. Timothy L. Stephens.
Foundation Scholarships
Through scholarships we encourage, inspire, support and educate youth and young adults to become a part of the great health care legacy in greater Cleveland.
By perpetuating the great health care legacy, we can impact the trend of the decreasing pool and increasing age of African American physicians and dentists in the gre ater Cleveland area.
As a nonprofit, foundation, from 1997– 2004, Health Legacy of Cleveland has contributed over $380,000 in charitable donations and scholarships to the Cleveland community.
In the year 2000, the Board of Trustees voted to focus contributions exclusively to its revised mission of scholarships for students pursuing health professions.
Medical and Dental School Scholarships
African American students enrolled in medical or dental school can apply each year for scholarships. Health Legacy of Cleveland requires that the scholarship recipient express the intent to return to Cleveland as a trained professional after graduation.
High School Health Career Scholarships
Cleveland Municipal School District graduating seniors pursuing health careers are eligible for Health Legacy of Cleveland annual scholarships that are named after: Dr. Oscar Saffold, Dr. Grant Franklin, and Dr. Jefferson Jones.
Funding
Contributions and grants have been received from corporations, foundations, individuals and friends of the health care and education community, and by sponsorship of various benefit events.
In 2003, the fundraising increased for scholarships through the Health Legacy Award and Scholarship Dinner. The Scholarship Fund supports graduating high school seniors and graduate students pursuing health professions as physicians and dentists.
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