BATON ROUGE – Gwendolyn Miller, one of the first Black nurses to work at Baton Rouge General, passed away last week at 90 years old.
Miller was part of a group of trailblazing nurses who worked on 4-South, the only floor at the time designated for Black patients and staff.
The nurses worked with hand-me-down equipment passed down from other floors. “We worked with what we had. We had equipment that was not new. We got the hand-me-downs from other floors, but thank God that we were able to help it and give our patients the very best of care,” Miller said…