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Title: Neglected History Sought
Description: Article announces that documentary filmmaker Kevin Wilmott and historians Deborah Dandridge and Tanya Hart are beginning work on a film focusing upon healthcare provided to African Americans living in Kansas City during the Jim Crow era. Wilmott is interviewed and provides a brief history of the city's General Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2. Former employees and patients of the city's segregated hospital are interviewed and describe their unequal treatment and conditions of the facility.
Date: 2013-03-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: History in the Mending
Description: Article describes the evolution of health care in the Kansas City region, from the earliest hospitals to the establishment of large medical schools and research institutions. A decade-by-decade description of the system's growth and development is provided, as well as a timeline of hospital openings and closings from 1864 to 2007. Over time, suburbanization has led to several hospital closings in Kansas City's urban core.
Date: 2014-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: St. Luke's CEO 44th in 'Power' Rankings
Description: G. Richard Hastings, president and chief executive officer of St. Luke's Health System, landed on "Modern Healthcare" magazine's list of the 100 most powerful people in health care for the third time.
Date: 2007-08-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of two health care personnel assisting an unidentified female patient with a medical procedure. Probably taken at General Hospital.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Truman Medical Centers History
Description: Book contains a short history of the Truman Medical Centers located on Hospital Hill in Kansas City, Missouri and in Lakewood in southeastern Kansas City. It is also the primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine. In the early days, TMC Hospital Hill was known as Kansas City General Hospital and TMC East as the Jackson County Hospital. The book also states, "In 1976 Kansas City General Hospital and the Jackson County Hospital merged to form Truman Medical Center."
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: View of two ambulance attendants working on a man laying on the ground. Probably a drill situation or staged photograph. Ambulance has "Kansas City Health Department" on the side. Exact location not given.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: African American Care Givers
Description: Interior view, appears to be a hospital room. Includes two unidentified, adult African American care givers tending to an African American child in a crib. Location probably General Hospital No.2, the city hospital located near downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Instruction to Adult Hospital Patients
Description: Interior view, nurses giving instruction to women hospital patients. Probably taken in the obstetrics ward at General Hospital. No identification of individuals.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of two female health care providers assisting an older unidentified woman with the use of crutches. Taken perhaps in a therapy room at the hospital.
Date: 1945~/1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Look Back at a Grim Beginning
Description: Article documents the history of the Good Samaritan Project (GSP) in Kansas City. The author states that GSP was founded in September of 1985 by members of the local chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church in response to the AIDS crisis. GSP is described as providing peer support for AIDS patients and hospice services through its Good Samaritan House. The evolution of the organization from a grassroots volunteer effort into a non-profit health care entity is traced.
Date: 2015-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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