Samuel Ulysses Rodgers (August 10, 1917 – December 19, 1999) was an American physician, educator, and public health advocate.
[1][2][3][4] Upon returning to Kansas City after the war, Rodgers began his obstetrics and gynecology residency at General Hospital No.
Contemporaneous reporting indicated the physicians' dissatisfaction with overwork, reliance on their own efforts to maintain quality of care, unqualified staff, lack of access to specialty training, and insufficient supplies.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] In 1950, Rodgers and several colleagues established The Doctors Clinic, one of the first private practices for Black physicians in Kansas City.
[2] In 1954, he joined the University of Kansas School of Medicine as a faculty member and held positions public health, human ecology, and obstetrics and gynecology departments.
It became one of the models for the community health center movement, providing healthcare to low-income and marginalized populations.