Former Japanese Hospital
Designation as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1131
National Register Eligible
PROJECT COORDINATORS: MIKE OKAMURA & KRISTEN HAYASHI
LOCATED: 101 S. Fickett Street, Boyle Heights/Los Angeles
For early Issei immigrants, access to medical care was limited. Denied medical care from mainstream hospitals, Pre-World War II Japanese Americans suffered a disproportionate number of deaths such as in the influenza epidemic of 1918. The Japanese Hospital opened in the Boyle Heights neighborhood near Little Tokyo in 1929 after five Issei doctors, denied L.A. County papers of incorporation to lease land to build, sued the State of California through the state courts and finally won before the United States Supreme Court in the Jordan vs. Tashiro case. The Cultural Heritage Commission, the L.A. City Council's Planning and Land Use Committee, City Council, and Mayor Eric Garcetti approved the HCM designation in November 2016. The HCM #1131 plaque and dedication event are being worked on now.
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