Provident Hospital was a small facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

It was founded in 1938 by two African-American physicians, Von D. Mizell and James Sistrunk; none of the existing hospitals in Fort Lauderdale would accept African-American patients.

In 1937, a young black man named John McBride was shot in the stomach by a car full of white men rumored to be members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Hospitals in the area near the Pompano Beach shooting at first refused to admit him.

But the hospital later insisted on moving McBride to a rundown sanitarium, where he soon died.