Flint-Goodridge Hospital was the only black operated hospital in New Orleans during the first half of the 20th century. Its origins can be traced to 1894 when a group of black women from the Phyllis Wheatley Club of New Orleans saw a need for a hospital in their community. The Phyllis Wheatley Sanitarium and Training School for Negro Nurses was the result and it opened in 1896. New Orleans University took over the management of the Sanitarium when the Club could no longer support the hospital. In 1911, buildings used jointly by Flint Medical College and Sarah Goodridge Hospital & Nurses Training School were converted into a 50 bed hospital which became Flint-Goodridge Hospital. When New Orleans University and Straight College merged to become Dillard University in 1930, the hospital became a part of the new university. Flint offered residencies to young black physicians at a time when they could not receive training at white operated hospitals. It was also one of the few institutions that trained black nurse anesthetists. Flint-Goodridge served as an outlet for the black medical community that emerged in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the city’s most prominent doctors, nurses, and students could call Flint-Goodridge their professional training ground. The desegregation of medical facilities in the 1960s precipitated the decline of the hospital and it closed in 1983. #NationalBlackBusinessMonth Photograph of Rivers Frederick (center) performing surgery at Flint-Goodridge Hospital, circa 1930s.