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Citizen: An American Lyric Article Evaluation (Tone)
This article is not entirely neutral. The author is making claims entirely based on what Rankine has written and uses powerful words like "tragedy". The author also makes a claim that it is Rankine's second person that is pointing out the injustices in society. There are no outside sources relating to what Rankine is talking about. The only voices represented in this section of the article is the author of the article and Rankine.

Research Notes, 9/25
Hi Ian and Nina! You have been assigned the article on Mercy Hospital (St. Petersburg, Florida). These are the research notes you made to yourself on 9/25:


 * Finding enough sources.
 * Ian also noted he is interested in this topic because he wants to pursue a career in medicine.

-Professor Hagood

Possible Sources:

https://digital.usfsp.edu/challenger/394/


 * The hospital obtained its first black doctor, Dr. James Maxie Ponder, in 1926 (p. 10)
 * Read through to get more facts

https://digital.usfsp.edu/challenger/764/

negotiations to develop mercy hospital site

https://digital.usfsp.edu/challenger/1109/

mercy alum association made up of 16 members dedicated to helping the community (p.5)

https://digital.usfsp.edu/challenger

Today we found news articles that involve Mercy Hospital. We hope to read through them and find relevant information that we can then use to make our WIKI article stronger. For example, we found that nurses created a commit in Mercy Hospital to help around the local community which can be added to the influential staff.

AH Notes, 10/04: Good work today, despite technical challenges! You may want to talk with the group who is covering Johnnie Ruth Clarke (Tyler & Anna) because they are researching biographical information that could have some relevance to Mercy Hospital. As you'll recall, it was rebuilt (in the 1980's, I think) and renamed after her.

Ideas for rough draft of article
Find more about Johnnie Ruth Clarke and the renaming of Mercy Hospital after her

Find primary sources on the closure/ renovation of Mercy Hospital

http://theweeklychallenger.com/keeping-the-history-of-mercy-hospital-alive/

Closure article:

http://www.stpete.org/oldsite/historic_preservation/historic_landmarks/local_landmarks/docs/Mercy_Hospital.pdf

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2671&context=etd (pg 19-22 [health insurance issues])

Key Points:


 * The cost of new equipment as well as taking care of older equipment was a financial burden on Mercy Hospital in a growing society. The hospital struggled to meet the city's accreditation in 1965. The lack of funding was one of many problems that Mercy Hospital came to face with, and ultimately created the crisis leading to closure after the lawsuit with the burned child.
 * Lack of funding: came from health insurance not being able to pay for hospital bills


 * the hospital relied on $3-15 per patient when the hospital needed at least $30 a patient to function

Rough Draft: Mercy Hospital (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Closure

The hospital struggled to cover its monthly operating costs since its opening in 1926. The hospital relied on payments that totaled anywhere from $3 to $15. This is much less than the typical $30 per day that a patient usually pays for hospital treatment. Due to the insufficient payments from patients as well as inadequate health insurance, Mercy Hospital struggled from the beginning. Along with the lack of full payments from patients, Mercy Hospital also was forced to deal with the revolutionizing technological advances for better patient care. The low payments from patients, as well as low funding from outside sources, made it very difficult for Mercy Hospital to keep up to date with their technology as well as their construction. Mercy Hospital could not afford to keep a high staff or proper instruments to do daily tests for patients. This increased the wait time for medical results. There were also a shortage of beds inside the hospital so the patient turn-around time also increased, making it more difficult to get through a lot of patients in a single day. The low funding and lack of employees led to multiple extensive problems that piled on top of each other. The hospital struggled with these issues for so long that it turned into a financial crisis. ''Unfortunately, in 1965, the hospital was denied accreditation when a baby was burned due to a defective incubator. The hospital closed on April 1, 1966 due to its inadequacies and also due to increases in deficits of more than $300,000 and to the fact that two separate hospitals owned by the city was not cost-effective. During the next years, the city tried to sell the property but failed. In the 1970s, it served as a temporary office space providing food and shelter to poor people. In 1973, it was used by the Goodwill Company as an office for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. In 1982, it was sold to a private developer, which renovated it in 1984 but only to be closed again in 1986 due to asbestos contamination. In the 1990s the facility was sold again, this time to a Clearwater private company named Asimeno Corporation only to be left there unused and inhabited.''

* Italicized words are copied from the actual wiki article.

 Ideas for Other Sections 

Johnnie Ruth Clark Health Center


 * Find more sources on this
 * Get together with the Johnnie Ruth Clark wiki group to see if they can add to this

Construction

Before Mercy Hospital, African-Americans relied on a small health care facility named the Good Samaritan.[2] The building was built in 1910 on 6th Avenue South and 7th Street with the purpose to provide health care to whites only.[2] However, it was moved in 1913 to 4th Avenue South and 12th Street to serve blacks only this time, making it the first hospital to serve African-American residents in this community. The health care facility only had five rooms, a few beds and minimal care.[2]

It was replaced in 1923 by Mercy Hospital as a result of the growing African-American community in St. Petersburg, Florida.[2] Mercy Hospital was created by the architect Henry Taylor who designed it and the contractor Edgar Weeks who built it.[1] The walls of the new hospital were made of stucco over hollow terra-cotta tile.[1] It had projecting eaves with decorative wooden brackets. The hospital had about sixteen to twenty beds.[2] The state refused to help the financial problems that the hospital faced, and therefore could not afford any more beds. It was not until 1926 that Mercy Hospital gained their first physician, Dr. James Maxie Ponder. Up until then, Mercy Hospital had been run by nurses only.

Renovation

After closing its doors in 1966, doctors and patients were transferred to Mound Park Hospital. The transition was not easy for the city of St. Petersburg. Mound Park started accepting black patients in 1964, but the black community still preferred Mercy Hospital because it was in the center of their community and was what they were comfortable with. Many years after Mercy Hospital closed its doors, the city of St. Petersburg bought the property in 1998. Renovations were made to Mercy Hospital and in 2004, the Johnnie Ruth Clarke Health Center was added to the site and patients still actively seek medical help there today.


 * Find more sources that talk about the renovation of Mercy Hospital
 * http://theweeklychallenger.com/keeping-the-history-of-mercy-hospital-alive/



Reflections

 * Our article is concise and not contradictory towards what is already written. We paraphrase on all external information that is being added and reference all outside sources. We need to find more sources so we can add more detail to the other sections that need work.
 * The only major issue is not having the entire Wikipedia article rely on one source. We are actively trying to find more sources to include in our article. We will keep going through online newspapers and journals to find relevant information.
 * We have found two references already to add so we are off to a good start. We need to find more in order to strengthen the article.
 * I think an image of the hospital and possibly the staff could really be beneficial for the reader. The image could provide visual aid for how many people worked in Mercy Hospital and puts faces to the names of people we address in the article under influential staff.