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In January SHREVEPORT TIMES
SUNDAY, September 3, 1972 Name Change Planned
For Confederate Center
There's going to be a name
c h a n g e — a switch from
Confederate Memorial Medical
Center to the Northwest Louisia-na
Medical Complex — come
January.
That's according to State Rep.
Alphonse Jackson Jr., who got
it from Gov. Edwin W. Ed-wards
at a meeting yesterday.
J a c k s o n and other blacks
have wanted a name change for
SOME time, f e e l i n g that
Confederate Memorial is not
appropriate for an institution
which has a patient load 90 per
:ent back.
Some officials at the Louisia-na
State University Medical
School at Shreveport have also
indicated privately that they
think a new name would change
the image of the hospital and
could even affect attracting new
personnel to the school.
And yesterday the governor
promised Jackson that the
name change will come in
January when the Constitutional
Convention meets.
Jackson said the new name
will be Northwest Louisiana
Medical Complex.
Confederate — which will be
100 years old in 1976 — was
originally known as Shreveport
Charity Hospital.
When the present institution
was constructed — p a t i e n t s
moved in in 1953 — the name
was changed to Confederate
Memorial Medical Center.
Construction of the building
was paid for partially 'with
millage from the Confederate
veterans pension fund.
For it was in 1946 that the last
Confederate veteran died and
the millage for the pensions was
up for grabs.
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| Title | Name Change Planned for Confederate Center |
| Subject |
Confederate Memorial Medical Center (Shreveport, La.) Jackson, Alphonse, Jr. |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1972-09-03 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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