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Taylor Lane Hospital
The Taylor Lane Hospital was founded in 1901 by Matilda Evans, M.D., the first African American woman to be licensed in South Carolina. The hospital was the first Black-owned hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. At the time of its founding, Black patients needing in-hospital treatment were turned away from the White hospitals in Columbia. After its opening, White physicians would treat their Aftrican American patients at Taylor Lane Hospital and Dr. Evans was skillful in persuading White doctors to treat the other Black patients for free. In 1918 the hospital burned down and was rebuilt as the                  and nurses training center.