Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, originally Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and School for Nurses, opened in 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 1512 Lombard Street with had 15 beds.
[5] His brother Aaron Albert Mossell was the hospital's lawyer.
[6] John P. Turner completed his residency at the hospital in 1906 and, then, joined its staff.
[7] He became the chief of its surgury department in 1935 and the president of staff in 1938, serving in that position until he retired as an emeritus surgeon and president emeritus of the staff of Mercy-Douglass Hospital in 1948.
[10] Time (magazine) featured Stubb's groundbreaking use of thoracoplasty at Douglass Hospital in April 1940.