Philly’s Mercy-Douglass Hospital blazed a trail for Black women in nursing

As the home of the nation’s first hospital and medical school, Philadelphia is considered the “cradle of American medicine.”

Yet the achievements of a group of local Black women in the nursing field don’t get nearly the same amount of attention.

However, a group of researchers is hoping to make those nurses’ stories more widely heard…

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