Edgecombe Sanitarium

Edgecombe Sanitarium was a private hospital run by African American doctors in Harlem, New York City. It served patients "of considerable means"[1] who did not want to be served at the primarily white staffed Harlem Hospital.

Edgecombe Sanitarium
African American Doctors
Geography
Location	Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates	40.8184°N 73.9467°W
Services
Beds	12
History
Opened	1900s
Closed	1900s
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York
Other links	Hospitals in Manhattan

Godfrey Nurse was one of the doctors who founded the hospital. The hospital had twelve beds.[1] It was started as the result of the Harlem Hospital having a primarily white staff.[2]

In 1925, the nearby Booker T. Washington Sanitarium was merged with Edgecombe.[2] In 1929, Edgecombe had treated 249 patients. Through fundraising, the hospital installed an x-ray machine.[3]

Gerri Major was part of its Woman's Auxiliary.

Notable patients

• Jean Carey Bond was born at the hospital.
• Eloise Bibb Thompson died at the hospital in 1928.
• Rudolph Fisher died at the hospital in 1934.[4]

References

1. Building a Healthy Black Harlem. Cambria Press. ISBN 9781621969686 – via Google Books.
2. "Harlem's Hospitals". Digital Harlem Blog. 31 May 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
3. W. Douglas Fisher; Joann H. Buckley (10 November 2015). African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers. McFarland. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4766-6315-9.
4. Rudolph Fisher (3 November 2008). The City of Refuge [New and Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher. University of Missouri Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-8262-6658-3.

External links

• Receipt from the Edgecombe Sanitarium, February 18, 1931 from the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst archives