ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - Paul’s Valley native Erma Willis-Alford found her passion to serve others while helping care for sick ...

Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with Mercy ... University was the first African American college of medicine. It had a close relationship with Freedmen’s Hospital, which moved to the Howard ...

A surgeon who has dedicated nearly 40 years to providing free, life-changing surgeries to African patients has been honored ...

Throughout February, we’ll be highlighting historical African American figures who ... Petersburg during the days of segregation when Mercy Hospital provided a safe refuge for Black people ...

Hughes, a pioneer in improving health care for African American people in Marion ... research indicated the first local hospital for Black patients was Mercy Hospital, circa 1903, in the ...