CLEVELAND HEALTHCARE LEGACY

The healthcare 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.