On this day in 1891, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the first African American surgeons in the United States, founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first interracial hospital in the U.S. and also established the first nursing school for African Americans. Dr. Williams later became renowned for performing one of the first successful open-heart surgeries in 1893.
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