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Founder of public health nursing and the first public health nursing center in New York:​

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Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster
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Lllian Wald was born into a comfortable Jewish family in 1867, but chose to work in the tenements of New York City. She coined the phrase “public health nursing” and is considered to be the founder of that profession.

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