Black Doctors

Homer G. Phillips Hospital is a new three-bed hospital in the Carr Square neighborhood of north St. Louis set to open in spring 2022. It is named after the original 728-bed Homer G. Phillips Hospital in The Ville that closed in 1979.

A judge dismissed a Black nursing group’s lawsuit for the rights to Homer G. Phillips’ name

Andrea Y. Henderson

A St. Louis County judge dismissed a lawsuit last month filed by a Black nursing organization against a north St. Louis health center using civil rights advocate Homer G. Phillips’ name. Homer G. Phillips Nurses Alumni Inc. trademarked the name, and it claimed the three-bed care facility infringed upon it.

Race, Identity & Faith

St. Louis leaders vow to continue opposing naming new hospital after Homer G. Phillips

Chad Davis

Community leaders in St. Louis are determined to keep fighting developer Paul McKee’s use of Homer G. Phillps’ name for a north St. Louis health center.

St. Louis County Health Department co-director Spring Schmidt (left) and county executive Sam Page address reporters on Sunday, March 8, 2020, regarding Missouri's presumed first case of the new coronavirus.

Health, Science & Environment

Opioid Overdoses Are Killing More Black Men In St. Louis, As Deaths Fall For Others

Sarah Fentem

The number of black men in St. Louis and St. Louis County who died of opioid drug overdoses increased between 2018 and 2019, even as those deaths declined…

Wash U’s Adia Harvey Wingfield is the 2018 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of Sociology Award.

Health, Science & Environment

Nuanced challenges, disparities face black doctors and other medical professionals of color

Evie Hemphill

Race, gender, work and inequality form the core of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield’s research – and her latest study focuses on the intersection of…