[2] Many of the city's poor black population lived in squalid conditions, and the mortality rate was high in comparison to whites of the time, while access to adequate health care was limited.

[2] The training school included hospital care and was founded in 1896,[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[9] The board of trustees at Dillard, under the leadership of New Orleans businessperson and philanthropist Edgar B. Stern Sr, needed a dynamic and capable leader to serve as the superintendent of the hospital, so in 1929 they selected the twenty seven year old Morehouse alumnus from Atlanta, Albert Walter Dent.

[5] Dent had to find a way to help his staff in complete residency, which had been a challenge due to the lack of opportunities for African American doctors during segregation.

[5] He enlisted the aid of white doctors from Tulane and Louisiana State University to serve as consultants to the hospitals' various departments, conducting regular post-graduate seminars.

[5] Construction began on a new hospital facility designed by Dillard University architect Moise Goldsteinat at a cost of approximately one-half million dollars, which opened in 1932 at the address of 2425 Louisiana Avenue next to Howard Street and LaSalle.

[5] The previous superintendent's wife, Mrs. Albert Walker Dent, came up with a plan to hold fashion shows to raise funds for the hospital, and she contacted John H. Johnson the publisher and editor of Jet and Ebony magazines to enlist their sponsorship.

[7] Though the hospital released a report in May 1969 anticipating growth, envisioning plans for expansion and modernization,[2] as a result of the desegregation measures of the 1960s, Flint Goodridge experienced a decline in patients over the intervening years, which eventually brought about its closure.

[2] Investment banker Keith Butler waged an effort to sell the hospital to a group of African American physicians, but failed.

[7]For much of the twentieth century Flint Goodridge functioned as an African American-owned hospital serving the needs of the black community in New Orleans.

[7][11] According to Kevin McQueeney: Hospitals, when considered as health centers and not just as health-care providers, are revealed to be driving engines of twentieth-century urban life, affecting education, labor, and land usage.

[2]The former Louisiana Avenue facility of Flint-Goodrige Hospital erected in 1932 is listed in US National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and was entered on January 1, 1989.