Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"You couldn’t just be good, you had to be excellent.”

Within ten years of the Homer G. Phillips hospital opening in The Ville neighborhood, it was the largest school in the country for Black nurses.

To learn more about the hospital's history and the people who worked and studied there, check out the full #IAmStLouis series at the link in @ninepbs's bio. | via Veronica Mohesky for #LivingStLouis