In 2011 , The Lovelady Center , a non-profit women 's rehab center , purchased the hospital property and renamed it " Metro Plaza . " Much of Carraway 's history took place during segregation , which " dictat ed virtually every element of Birmingham race relations . " A noteworthy incident involving the then-segregated hospital happened in May 1961 , when the staff refused admittance to James Peck , a Freedom Rider who had been severely beaten by Klansmen after descending the Trailways bus , the second bus with Freedom Riders to leave Atlanta , Georgia ; he was later treated at Jefferson Hillman Hospital . The segregational policy of the hospital is rendered in prose fiction also , in Anthony Grooms 's 2001 novel '' Bombingham '' . By 1968 , the hospital was racially integrated ; a notable patient in 1968 was Robert Edward Chambliss , convicted in 1977 for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing . In the 1970s still , accusations of racial preference , in for instance hiring practices , were made against the hospital
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Carraway Methodist Medical Center