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Article: Stephen Smith Home: Oldest Black nursing center in U.S.
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- March 18, 1994
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Vincent Thompson
Philadelphia Tribune, The
03-18-1994
Stephen Smith Home: Oldest Black nursing center in U.S..
By Vincent Thompson
Tribune staff
Last month, the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, the oldest African-American nursing home in the nation, celebrated its 130th anniversary at the First District Plaza, 3801 Market St.
Stephen Smith, a West Philadelphia institution at Girard and Belmont Avenues, has been owned by Mercy-Douglass Corp., a African-American-owned health and human services organization since 1985.
The Smith Home, which has serviced thousands of African-American elderly since its inception, was an early 19th century leader nationwide in the field of institutional care for the ...