Lillian D Wald was an American nurse, humanitarian and author.
34 Facts About Lillian Wald
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Lillian Wald was known for contributions to human rights and was the founder of American community nursing.
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Lillian Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and was an early advocate to have nurses in public schools.
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Lillian Wald briefly attended medical school and began to teach community health classes.
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Lillian Wald campaigned for suffrage and was a supporter of racial integration.
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Lillian Wald was involved in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Lillian Wald was born into a wealthy German-Jewish medical family in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Lillian Wald's parents were Max D Wald and Minnie Wald.
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Lillian Wald attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies.
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Lillian Wald applied to Vassar College at the age of 16, but the school thought that she was too young.
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Lillian Wald graduated from the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1891, then took courses at the Woman's Medical College.
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Lillian Wald worked for a time at the New York Juvenile Asylum, an orphanage where conditions were poor.
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Lillian Wald's ideas led the New York Board of Health to organize the first public nursing system in the world.
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Lillian Wald was the first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing.
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Lillian Wald established a nursing insurance partnership with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that became a model for many other corporate projects.
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Lillian Wald suggested a national health insurance plan and helped to found the Columbia University School of Nursing.
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Lillian Wald authored two books relating to her community health work, The House on Henry Street and Windows on Henry Street.
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Lillian Wald believed that every New York City resident was entitled to equal and fair health care regardless of their social status, socio-economic status, race, gender, or age.
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Lillian Wald argued that everyone should have access to at-home-care.
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Lillian Wald was a strong advocate for the social benefit of having donors who dwelled within the community.
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Lillian Wald provided a unique opportunity for women and employment through the Settlement.
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Lillian Wald taught women how to cook and sew, provided recreational activities for families, and was involved in the labor movement.
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Lillian Wald was an early leader of the Child Labor Committee, which became the National Child Labor Committee.
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Lillian Wald remained involved with the AUAM's daughter organizations, the Foreign Policy Organization and the American Civil Liberties Union, after the United States joined the war.
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Lillian Wald maintained her closest relationships and attachments with women.
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Correspondence reveals that Lillian Wald felt closest to at least two of her companions, homemaking author Mabel Hyde Kittredge and lawyer and theater manager Helen Arthur.
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Ultimately Lillian Wald was more engaged in her work with Henry Street than in any relationship.
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Lillian Wald preferred personal independence, which allowed her to move quickly, travel freely and act boldly.
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Lillian Wald died of a cerebral hemorrhage on September 1,1940.
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Lillian Wald was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.
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Lillian Wald was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1970.
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In 1993, Lillian Wald was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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Lillian Wald paved the way for women in the public health world in numerous ways: As a medical provider, an employer, and an educator.
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Lillian Wald's legacy is still seen today in the Visiting Nurses Service of New York.