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The Fords moved to Alabama shortly after that, but the state’s unwelcoming atmosphere prompted them to move to Denver in 1902. On October 2, 1902, Justina Ford became Denver's first licensed African American female doctor under license number 3800.
- The Story of The Health Warriors Who Made Denver Health What It Is Today
- The Birth of Denver's First Community Health Clinic
- Turbulence During The Civil Rights Era at Denver Health
- Expansion of Clinics to Denver Health's School-Based Health Centers
- Denver Health Family Health Center Expansions and New Partnerships
This is the latest in a series of articles reflecting on and celebrating the rich history of 160 years of Denver Health. Back in the early 1960's, Dr. Samuel Johnson was keenly aware of patients as he walked through the lobby of what was then known as Denver General Hospital (Denver Health today). For many, the journey began with a pre-dawn bus rid...
Undaunted, Denver officials kept working on their grant proposal and on June 30, 1965, they received a grant of $805,000 from the feds and another $89,000 in cash and in-kind services from the city. It was a staggering sum of money at the time. Some of the funds went toward renovating the Macklem Bakery at 529 E. 29th Street in the Five Points neig...
The Sixties was a turbulent era in Denver and around the country and nowhere were the waters choppier than in the Neighborhood Health Program. Members of the Black Panthers loitered in the streets, Latino activists from the Crusade for Justice marched through downtown Denver. Board meetings were so heated that some members took to carrying guns. Sh...
Eventually, Dr. Johnson and his disciples departed. But the network of health clinics they had built was durable and continued to grow. In 1987-88, Denver Health partnered with Denver Public Schools to open its first School-based Health Center (SBHC). It was located in Abraham Lincoln High Schooland the first patient was a student suffering from pi...
Over time, Denver Health replaced all of the buildings where its original health centers were located and also began building new health centers (Family Health Centers). Between 2010 and 2019, beautiful, state-of-the art health centers opened in Park Hill, Montbello, Lowry and southwest Denver. The latter facility, called the Federico F. Peña South...
Jan 21, 2007 · The child who would become Denver, Colorado’s first and only woman doctor in the early decades of the twentieth century was born in Knoxville, Illinois on January 22, 1871.
Feb 27, 2023 · Justina Ford became one of the first licensed female doctors, and the very first black-american doctor, not only in Denver, Colorado, but the U.S. as well, under license number 3800. On October 2nd, 1902, Justina Ford went to pay for her license, the examiner told her “I'd feel dishonest taking a fee from you.
Richfield, with 8 families and 12 men in 1871, had 753 people by 1874 and was on its way to becoming a major regional commercial center and, eventually, the provider of hospital, airport, and other services for a large area.
By 1867, there were 14 doctors in Denver alone; although there is no record of female doctors. That all changed on January 8, 1873, when Denver’s Rocky Mountain News carried the following ...
Feb 19, 2019 · DENVER — Dr. Justina Ford was the first African-American female physician in Colorado, but because of the color of her skin, she was forced to open her practice in her own house.
