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Title: His Job Offers 'Real Drama in Real Time'
Description: Brief interview with John Bluford, CEO of Truman Medical Center and Chairman of the Board of the American Hospital Association for 2011. Bluford discusses his tenure at Truman Medical Center and healthcare topics.
Date: 2011-05-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: St. Luke's Selects New CEO
Description: The new chief executive officer for the St. Luke's Health System is Melinda L. Estes. She will succeed Richard Hastings, who will retire July 31. St. Luke's employs 9,000. Prior to coming to Kansas City, Estes has been chief executive of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont, for the past eight years.
Date: 2011-06-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Health Center Head Is Named
Description: Dr. Samuel Rodgers appointed director of the new neighborhood health center to be opened soon [in 1967] at Wayne Miner court. Dr. Rodgers was also "a partner in group practice at the Doctors clinic" at 2701 East 31st Street as well as a staff member at Menorah, Research, and St. Mary's Hospitals. His residence was at 3405 Quincy Avenue.
Date: 1967-10-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Exterior view of two Kansas City ambulances parked by garage doors at the ambulance division of General Hospital No.1. Two unidentified attendants are lifting a stretcher into the back of one of the ambulances. The other is parked beside it with two attendants inside the vehicle. The ambulances are Ford V-8 models, one identified as 5-581 with the city logo visible on the door.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Hospital Adult Patient Care
Description: Interior view of a health care provider giving an eye test to a seated unidentified female. Location not given, presumed to be at General Hospital.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: African American Health Care
Description: Interior view of two African American school children ready to receive immunization shots from an unidentified African American care giver.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Full, exterior view of a Ford model ambulance with driver parked in front of a garage, probably at the ambulance division at the city's General Hospital. Vehicle has tire chains on back wheel. Identified as belonging to the Kansas City Health Department, No. 26, with the city's logo on the side of the door. Driver is unidentified.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Outpatient Services
Description: Exterior view showing medical intern leaving a house and going toward a Health Department car. Captioned on the back of the photograph: "Health Dept. interne on sick call." Photograph appears in the City Manager's annual report, 1941, p. 45, MVSC Q 092.52 K16 1940-48 and is captioned: "Internes made over 9,000 sick calls during year."
Date: 1941~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: African American Student Lab Technicians
Description: Interior view of three African American women seated with textbooks and lab apparatus. Location not given.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: View of ambulance with patient being unloaded by two attendants. Location not given, probably General Hospital No.1.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Partial, exterior view of a Ford model ambulance with attendant cleaning the windshield, probably located at ambulance division at the city's General Hospital. Vehicle belongs to the Kansas City Health Department, No. 26, and the city's seal is visible on the door.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Exterior view showing a person on a stretcher being placed in an ambulance by two attendants with others looking on. The ambulance has Kansas City Health Department written on the side.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: View of ambulance with patient being unloaded by two attendants. Location not given, probably General Hospital No.1.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ambulance Service
Description: Interior view, taken at an exhibition or show of some kind. Location is not known. Includes view of an ambulance, two unidentified attendants, and examples of items found in an ambulance. Poster display in background contains various photographs and text. Ambulance appears to be a Ford model.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Outpatient Services
Description: Exterior view of unidentified woman visiting a mother and children in a sub-standard home, identified as a "home visit." Probably part of the city's visiting nurse program.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Instruction on Medical Procedures
Description: Interior view of what may be a class on first aid instruction. Given to a group of women including two African American women. Location may be General Hospital. No one is identified.
Date: 1945~/1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P34-1 Kansas City Health Care Photograph Collection Finding Aid
Description: This photograph collection contains 198 black and white photographs taken in the 1940s-1950s. The images are of health care facilities and services maintained by the Kansas City Health Department. Includes General Hospital Nos. 1 and 2, the TB Hospital in the Leeds area, nursing program, etc. The collection was acquired from the Kansas City Landmarks Commission.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Center to Adopt Name of Its First, Only Director
Description: Article about Dr. Samuel Rodgers, the new namesake in 1988 of the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, formerly called the Wayne Miner Health Center. Dr. Rodgers was the first and only director of the health center since its inception in 1967. Brief histories of both his career and the center are given, including its move in 1972 to 825 Euclid Avenue.
Date: 1988-05-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Seismic Changes in Health Care
Description: Interview with Saint Luke's new CEO Dr. Melinda Estes, neuropathologist and former CEO of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, VA. With the upcoming changes in healthcare under federal reform, Estes has several initiatives underway including Focus 2015, to help cut the costs of health care.
Date: 2012-03-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Center to Replace Old Clinic
Description: The Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is planning to build a new $20 million facility to replace their current clinic located at 825 Euclid Avenue. Part of the money to build is to come from the state and the new clinic will be built on property just to the north. The health center provides inner-city health care and in 2006 saw more than 17,000 patients. "The health center was founded in 1968 by the late Samuel U. Rodgers, one of six doctors who formed the first black group practice in the United States and a pioneer in the integration of medical facilities in Kansas City."
Date: 2007-05-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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