Flint-Goodridge Hospital

Flint-Goodridge Hospital was a hospital that was for many years located on 2425 Louisiana Avenue, next to LaSalle Street, in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. For almost a century (1896-1983) it served predominantly African American patients and, for most of these years, was owned and operated by Dillard University, a historically black university.

The history of the hospital can be traced to the Phyllis Wheatley Sanitarium and Training School for Negro Nurses, run by the Phyllis Wheatley Club. The training school included hospital care and was founded in 1896, operating under the administration of the Phyllis Wheatley Club and located in the Medical College facility of New Orleans University, which was run by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Needing increased financing to maintain the hospital and because of a lack of financial support, the school was taken under the wing of New Orleans University and merged with the school’s Medical College hospital. The efforts of Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Willard Francis Mallalieu, the school was able to enlist the aid of John Flint of Fall River, Massachusetts, who donated $25,000 to the institution. In 1901, the name of the hospital was changed to Sarah Goodridge Hospital and Nurse Training School and the medical college too the name Flint Medical College of New Orleans University in honor of John Flint. Flint donated and additional $10,000 to purchase a new property at 1566 Canal Street, which would house the Flint Medical College.

The Flint Medical College closed in 1911, when the American Medical association, under increasingly stringent guidelines, deemed its facilities unacceptable. In 1915 the School of Pharmacy closed. That year all of the buildings were placed under the use of the Sarah Goodridge Hospital, which continued to operate under the administration of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in 1916 a renovation was done on the facilities, which had fallen into disrepair. The buildings at Canal and Robertson streets, which had been used by both the Flint Medical College and the Sarah Goodridge Hospital and Nurses Training School, were converted into a 50 bed hospital and a nurse' residence. The Hospital was renamed Flint-Goodridge Hospital. The Nurse Training Department was reorganized and continued under the management of New Orleans University.

In 1930 New Orleans University and Straight College merged to form Dillard University, a historically black university, which would own and operate the Hospital henceforth. A campaign was initiated to raise $2,000,000 for a new a completely new facility for the hospital. After funds were secured, the new facility was erected at 2425 Louisiana Avenue, next to LaSalle Street, uptown, and on February 1, 1932, the dedication ceremony was held.

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