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  • Description is exactly "2. "Coffee Hospital is Approved by Commission." A Thursday, March 10, 1955 Florence Herald article reporting that the new Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital had been accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, and that Dr. L. J. Hicks, MD was on the staff of physicians."

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Dr. Hicks located in Florence in June of 1933. He was one of six African-American MDs in Florence between 1890 and 1940.

In June of 1953 Hicks became the first African-American physician elected to the Lauderdale County Medical Society (by a…
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