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In October 1923, Miss Frances Hopkins, a well-known black nurse in Greenville, opened her home at 114 N. Washington Street as a unit of Pitt General Hospital for colored patients, beginning with two patients in a room in her house. In early 1924, the Greenville Kiwanis Club began working to open a black hospital in Greenville, rented the Old Bernard House near the corner of First and Evans Streets, and hired Miss Hopkins, a graduate nurse and Greenville native, to manage it. The Kiwanis Club sought donations from both white and black churches, and Pitt General Hospital agreed to share its sterilizing plant, operating rooms, X-ray, and pathological laboratories. St. Frances Hospital for Colored People opened on September 1, 1924, with 15 beds, a staff of 2 graduate nurses, and a few nurses in training.
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