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The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.
Introductory*
City of Baltimore
Council Bill
Introduced by: Councilmember Stokes
A Bill Entitled
An Ordinance concerning
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City Property - Naming the Baltimore City Health Department Building to the Dr. Maxie T. Collier Health Department Building
For the purpose of naming the Baltimore City Health Department Building, located at 1001 East Fayette Street, to the Dr. Maxie T. Collier Health Department Building.
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By authority of
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section 20-2
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
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Dr. Maxie T. Collier is a Baltimore hero. The first black Commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department, a staunch advocate of mental health services for black residents of Baltimore City, and an early champion of needle-exchange programs to prevent the spread of HIV, Dr. Collier deserves Baltimore’s deep love and respect.
“I will remember Maxie as a brilliant psychiatrist and a caring and compassionate public health official,” said former Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, quoted in Dr. Collier’s obituary published by the Baltimore Sun on April 23, 1994, on the event of Dr. Collier’s untimely death at the age of 49.
In 1984, observing widespread misdiagnoses by practitioners and a lingering stigma towards mental health treatment in the black community that kept individuals with mental illness from seeking care Dr. Collier, together with Fikre Workneh, MSW and Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, founded the Black Mental Health Alliance (“BMHA”). For over 30 years BH...
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