Abandoned historic hospital getting new life
by Associated Press
Published: November 23,2011
Tags: community development, grant, health, healthcare, hospitals, medicine, municipal government, quality of life
MOUND BAYOU — The long-shuttered Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou is getting a nearly $3-million grant to become the first urgent care center in one of the nation’s poorest towns.
Mayor Kennedy Johnson sees the grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a win-win-win situation.
In 2000, the hospital made the 10 most endangered historic sites in Mississippi. The Interior Department also has registered it as a national historic site.
In 1887, former slaves formed Mound Bayou and saw their community strengthened in 1942 through the opening of the Taborian Hospital.
For more than two decades, the 42-bed facility provided care to many African Americans.
Johnson tells The Clarion-Ledger the new clinic will be the only urgent care center of its kind within 80 miles.
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December 6th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Hope the contractor gets paid directly from the grant provider. A contractor in the past upgraded the City’s water system and the political class of that day stole the multi-million dollar grant before they paid the contractor. He ended up suing the city, and I don’t think he every got paid.