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Correction published Saturday, July 16, 2022 - The location of the historic Homer G. Phillips Hospital is roughly 2 miles west of a new health clinic. It was misidentified in a story in Friday's paper.
ST. LOUIS -- A group of nurses who worked at the historic Homer G. Phillips Hospital in north St. Louis has spent years asking a controversial developer not to name his urgent care center after it.
But now their patience is up.
The group filed suit this week accusing developer Paul McKee's new facility, at Jefferson Avenue and Thomas Street, of unfairly profiting off a name that once adorned a five-story, 600-bed marvel of Black St. Louis during segregation. The use of the name, the suit says, also violates the group's trademark for Homer G. Phillips Nurses' Alumni, Inc.
"That name should not be on there," said Yvonne Jones, the group's president.
An attorney for the new health care facility, Paul Puricelli, said the suit was without merit. He said it was unfortunate that the nurses were opposing an attempt to bring health care...