Provident Hospital began as a 10-bed clinic in a private residence at 419 Orchard St, in northwest Baltimore, Maryland in 1894 to provide both medical treatment and training for Black nurses and doctors. The hospital was founded by Negro physicians who were practicing in the Baltimore area just a year after the founding of the first Black-owned and operated hospital, Provident Hospital of Chicago.The founding physicians were Dr. J. Marcus Cargill (organizer and Professor of Gynecology, Dr. William E. Harris, Dean and Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr. Charles Henry Fowler, Professor of Obstetrics, Dr. Richard Johnson, Dr. William T. Carr, and Dr. James O'Neil Creditt staffed this small hospital. Within two years it moved to a larger site at 413 W. Biddle Street. Provident Hospital was one of the first black medical facilities located in Baltimore.