Medical Imaging Associates Inc history

The building was built in 1910 on 6th Avenue South and 7th Street with the purpose to provide health care to whites only.

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.

Up until then, Mercy Hospital had been run by nurses only. It was replaced in 1923 by Mercy Hospital as a result of the growing African-American community in St Petersburg, Florida.

He moved to St Petersburg with his wife Phannye Ayer Ponder from Ocala, Florida in 1924.

The hospital had difficulty covering its monthly operating costs since its opening in 1926.

In 1948, thanks to Doctor Timberlake's remarks about how pitiful the facility was, a 15,000-foot addition that cost about $212,742 was built for Mercy, which added more space for beds, now totaling fifty-five.

Doctor Fred W. Alsup came to live in the city of St Petersburg in 1950.

Doctor Eugene C. Rose started his medical practice in St Petersburg in 1953.

In 1959 alone, Mercy admitted around 2,764 patients and performed more than 480 surgeries, but still it was not enough.

Despite Doctor Edward Cole's remarks of the hospital having no pharmacy, poor laboratories, inefficient x-ray equipment, no room for the recovery of patients, and no physical therapy service to a newspaper, the city council refuted the proposed $1.7 million addition to it in 1960.

Altamease Chapman was the first black to be allowed in and treated in Mount Park on February 26, 1961 by Doctor Fred Alsup.

Then, in 1962 Mercy Hospital experienced an $865,000 expansion.

He was elected in 1964 as Chief of the Division of General Practice at Mercy and Mound Park Hospital.

After closing its doors in 1966, doctors and patients were transferred to Mound Park Hospital.

In 1969, C. Bette Wimbish, his lifetime wife and now widow, became the first black person to be on the St Petersburg City Council.

In 1973, it was used by the Goodwill Company as an office for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

In 1998, the facility was purchased back by the city due to a lack of redevelopment and more and more deterioration for $142,000.