Walter P Lomax Jr

Walter P. Lomax Jr. (July 31, 1932 – October 10, 2013) was an American physician, health administrator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia. He established a network of neighborhood clinics and correctional healthcare services and acquired WURD, the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania at the time.

Lomax graduated from La Salle University and Hahnemann University Hospital, starting his medical practice in 1958. His practice grew from a single physician office to six clinics with 22 physicians. In 1982, he founded Lomax Health Systems to manage these clinics. A year later, he established Correctional Healthcare Solutions, which recruited healthcare workers for the Philadelphia prison system. By the 1990s, this business managed healthcare staff at seventy prisons across ten states.

Lomax expanded into real estate and philanthropy, creating Lomax Companies as an umbrella corporation and founding the Lomax Family Foundation. In 2003, he and his wife purchased WURD, a significant acquisition in the media landscape. He also acquired Jubilee Farm Plantation, an 800-acre property in Virginia where his great-grandmother had been enslaved.

In 2004, Lincoln University awarded Lomax an honorary Ph.D. in science for his contributions to healthcare. He served as a trustee of La Salle University and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In August 2021, the block of Wharton Street in Philadelphia where he began his medical practice was renamed "Walter P. Lomax, Jr., M.D., Way." Lomax died of a stroke at the age of 81.