We are our history: Baylor University Medical Center and Black physicians in Dallas

Abstract

The Texas Baptist Memorial Sanatorium, the hospital that later became known as Baylor University Medical Center, dates back to 1904. With this long-lived history comes the truths that affected all hospitals during the Jim Crow era: segregation and inequality. This paper attempts to place Baylor University Medical Center, which aimed (and continues to aim) to be a “great humanitarian hospital,” in its historical context. Understanding this history may help explain and combat the inequities we continue to see in health care today.