Harlem Hospital, Patient Navigation, Dr. Freeman
By 1921, more than 200,000 African Americans had migrated to Harlem and about half of them utilized Harlem Hospital. Many of these people had come up from the South with the hope of living a better life in New York. But, among other things—and reflecting the segregation of the times—Harlem Hospital only provided health care to African Americans on certain days of the week, unless extra fees were paid. Thus, for example, an article from the New York Herald, […]
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