The final days of the historic McLendon Hospital: A pioneer for Black health care in Atlanta

The now-gutted structure of the building once known as the McLendon Hospital is unknown.

Atlanta media mogul Alexis Scott says the hospital, which was in operation between the mid-1940s through the 1980s, was the lifeblood of the Black community — and it was one of the few places where Black people could get decent care and respectable service.

Scott, who is now in her 70s, says she and her older brother were born at the facility that was founded by Dr. Frederick Earl McLendon during the Jim Crow era in Atlanta’s Hunter Hills neighborhood.