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.

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 ...

Williams had made history. People all over the world heard about his work. In 1897 Williams returned to Chicago and married in April 1898. Hale died on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1931.

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 ...

A grieving father says he wants to know what led to the death of his 22-year-old son on the day he was supposed to be released from an Alabama correctional facility.

An Alabama inmate died after being beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted in prison for days — just two weeks before he was due to be released, according to his family. Daniel Williams, a 22 ...

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 ...

Hannah Ray paid tribute to her fiancé Daniel Williams, who died in a private plane crash in San Diego on May 22 Williams, a former drummer for The Devil Wears Prada, was one of the six crash ...

As part of Black History Month, 6 News is celebrating the life of an African-American man from Blair County who changed medicine forever. In 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first ...

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.