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The idea for the hospital was formed at a Shelby County Baptist Association meeting in 1906 when Dr. H.P. Hurt of the Bellevue Baptist Church proposed a new Baptist-sponsored hospital. In 1914, the hospital was in debt and near closure due to a lack of patients. The hospitals superintendent A.E. Jennings raised $1 million to save the hospital.
Reverend Oris Lee Mays (April 7, 1935 – April 21, 1996) [1] was an American preacher, gospel singer and songwriter. Born in Lambert, Mississippi, he came to Memphis, Tennessee as a teen and graduated from Melrose High School. He studied theology at J. L. Campbell School of Religion and Brewster Seminary.
This hospital, built in 1979, is now the flagship of Baptist Memorial Health Care since the closure of the Madison Campus in the Medical District, Memphis in 2000, which dated from 1912. [2] Baptist Memorial Health Care operates 22 Hospitals and numerous clinics in the three states surrounding the Memphis area. [ 3 ]
The buildings, except for a recently built emergency room annex which St. Jude converted into a Translational Trials Unit, were subsequently demolished to make room for an expansion. The merger between St. Joseph's and Baptist Memorial Health Care was completed in 1998 and the last patients were transferred to Baptist on November 17, 2000. [3]
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 9 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
The First Baptist Church of Memphis was organized in April 1839. [1] First Baptist was organized with eleven charter members, meeting in an old log schoolhouse in Downtown Memphis. Its 1907 neo-classical church building designed by R. H. Hunt was completed in 1907. In December 1951, famed Baptist Statesman Rev. Dr. R. Paul Caudill moved the ...
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is a 255-bed, tertiary care children's hospital located in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Le Bonheur has more than 700 medical staff representing 40 pediatric specialties.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, Columbus, Mississippi Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis , in Memphis, Tennessee (formerly Baptist East) Research Medical Center-Brookside Campus , a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri that was formerly known as Baptist Memorial Hospital