Lillian Wald (1867–1940) was a pioneer of American public health and social work. She was born in Cincinnati to a middle-class Jewish family and raised in Rochester, New York. At the age of 22, she came to New York City to attend the New York Hospital School of Nursing. Four years later, in 1893, Wald partnered with her friend and fellow nurse, Mary Brewster, to found the Henry Street Settlement, an institution dedicated to improving public health and living conditions in Lower East Side tenement neighborhoods. Wald made the Henry Street Settlement available as the meeting place for the National Negro Conference, which became the NAACP. The Visiting Nurse Service of New York was founded by Lillian Wald and is the oldest, and the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in the United States.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:28:09 +0000
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