Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-03-09
Conf. On Hospital
Integration
To Be Held

10 BE neIQ
Prominent Leaders
To Participate
HON. BARRATT O'HARA, ROY
WILKINS AND DIR. T. r. M.
HOWARD TO ADDRESS
OPENING MEETING
Washington, D. c., Feb. 81
Three nationally known organiza-
tons will sponsor a conference of
nationwide scope on hospital inte-
grafton in Washington on March
8 and 9. The meeting, called the
Imhotep National Conference on
Hospital Indignation, will be held
at the Fifteenth Street Presbyter-
ian Church, 18th and r Streets,
N. w. 1t will be under the auspices
of the National Medical Associa-
tion, through its Council on Medi-
cal Education and Hospitals, the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
through its National Health Com
mittee, and the Medico- Chimurgi-
cal Society of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Advance registration already in
dicates a nationwide attendance for
the meeting from both urban and
rural areas. Representatives will
describe the situation as it's exists
in their communities from cities
including Los Angeles, New Or
leans, Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Day
tona Beach, Fla, Charleston, S. c.,
Columbia, S. c., Charlotte, N. c.,
Wilmington, N. c., Norfolk, New
port News, Richmond, Roanoke,
Nashville, Kansas City, Detroit,
Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Pitts
burgh, New York, Baltimore and
Washington, as well as places of
smaller population like Beaumont,
Texas, and Oxford, Maryland.
National organizations which
will send representatives include
the American Hospital Association,
American Medical Association, AM
erican College of Physicians, Am
erican Nursing Association, Ma
tional League for Nursing, U. S.
Public Health Service and other
Government agencies, National
Health Council, National Society
for Medical Research, National AS
ISOLATION of Social Workers, Com
mission on Intergroup Relations of
New York, and many other groups
directly or indirectly concerned
with hospital services from the
professions, management and labor.
The purpose of the Conference
is to get first hand information
from various regions of the coun-
try on the current status of inte-
grafton in hospitals of both staff
and patient, and through coopera-
ton, study and understanding to
recommend positive remedial pro-
grams.
DR.. w. Montague Cobb is chair
man Of the Conference and will
preside at the opening session at
! 10 am. on Friday morning, March
8. At this session the Hon. David
B. Karrick, Commissioner Of the
District of Columbia, will give
greetings for the city.
Brief addresses for the sponsor
ing organizations will be given by
DR.. T. R. M. Howard of Chicago,
president of the National Medical
Association; Roy wilkins, executive
secretary of the NAACP; and DR..
Edward c. Mazique, president of
the Medico-C hirurgical Society OF
the District Of Columbia. DR.. Rob-
ert S. Jason, dean of the Howard
University College Of Medicine and
DR.. Harold D. West, president of
Meharry Medical College, Nash.
vile, Tenn, will make brief state
ments on what expanded opportuni.
ties in hospital facilities will mean
for their graduates and the people
they serve.
F, The principal address will be de-
livered by the Honorable Barratt
O'Hara, member of the U. S. House
of Representatives from the Sec
ond Congressional District of Hi.
nois. Music will be furnished by
the Choral Society of the Howard
University Medical School, stu
dent organization. Rev. Rober
Pierre Johnson, pastor of the FIT
teenth Street Presbyterian Church
will pronounce the invocation ane
benediction.