Walter P. Lomax Jr. (July 31, 1932 – October 10, 2013)[1] was an American physician, health administrator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia. Between the 1960s and 2000s, Lomax established a network of neighborhood clinics and correctional healthcare services and acquired WURD, then the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania.[2]
In 1982, Lomax established Lomax Health Systems to manage his clinics, and a year later he founded Correctional Healthcare Solutions, which recruited healthcare workers to supplement the City of Philadelphia's staff in the prison system. The business grew quickly and by the 1990s was managing healthcare workers at seventy prisons in ten states. Lomax expanded into real estate and philanthropy, founding Lomax Companies as an umbrella corporation and launching the Lomax Family Foundation.[2][4] In 2003, Lomax and his wife purchased radio station WURD, then the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania.[4]
In 1994, Lomax purchased the Jubilee Farm Plantation, where his great-grandmother had been enslaved, in King William County, Virginia. The eighteenth-century property consisted of 800 acres.[5]
In August 2021, the 1800 block of Wharton Street in Philadelphia was renamed "Walter P. Lomax, Jr., M.D., Way" to commemorate where he started his medical practice, at the South Philadelphia Medical Center on the corner of 18th and Wharton Streets.[6]
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