Hospitals and Managed Care
Meeting of administrators at the FAMU Hospital in Tallahassee, 1965
FAMU Hospital
This hospital was the first healthcare facility built in North Florida for African Americans and allowed Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) to establish a nursing program.
Review these resources to learn more:
- You can view images of the hospital, staff and services provided from the years 1953 – 1965.
- FAMU course catalogs from the State Library include information about the hospital, names of staff who worked there and the nursing courses taught at FAMU through the years.
- You can see hospital registers and birth certificates from 1943-1967 at the State Archives.
Nurse Grace Kyler working with polio victims at the FAMU Hospital in Tallahassee, 1953
Provident Hospital Association
Annual reports from the Provident Hospital Association (PDF), an African American hospital in Fort Lauderdale. The annual bulletin includes history, aim and scope of the work of the hospital and a statement from medical director V.D. Mizzell, M.D.
Managed care
These 1996 policy documents in the State Publications Collection look at African American physicians in Florida who participated in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the managed care system.
