Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and ...

Daniel Hale Williams was born on Jan. 18, 1858 in Hollidaysburg, Pa. He was the son of a barber/businessman and his mother was a cousin to Frederick Douglass. His family strongly advocated the ...

In Chicago, Illinois, at Provident Hospital in 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed open heart surgery on a patient who had suffered multiple chest stab wounds. The innovative actions saved ...

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known as “Dr. Dan” performed the first successful open heart surgery in America. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1856, the ...

In the annals of medical history, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams stands out as a pioneering figure who bravely ventured into the ...

Pioneering surgeon Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, just before the Civil War. His mother, a mix of African American and Native American heritage, was the daughter of ...

Without antibiotics, adequate anesthesia or many of the tools used in modern-day heart surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams cut a small hole into Cornish’s chest using a scalpel.

I’m thankful to his doctors who caught it, to the surgeon who did such a beautiful job, to the nurses who helped him get back on his feet – and to Daniel Hale Williams, the cardiologist who ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 9, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

The legacy of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the first doctors in the world to perform a successful open-heart surgery, lives on at Provident Hospital.