[5] The building, listed as the Community Hospital, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 2004, for its significance in health/medicine and ethnic heritage.

"[6] Kenney financed the hospital with his own money, built it next to his own house, and named it after his deceased parents.

The hospital, built in Italian Renaissance Revival style, officially opened on September 1, 1927.

Hospital personnel included a house physician, eight graduate nurses, a matron, and two orderlies.

In 1938, Dr. Kenney was accepted on the staff of Newark Beth Israel Hospital, and in 1939 he returned to the Tuskegee Institute.