AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - The Akron General Cleveland Clinic hospital dedicated a special plaque in honor of national nurses week. Akron General Cleveland Clinic honored a special nurse today for # ...

ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - Paul’s Valley native Erma Willis-Alford found her passion to serve others while helping care for sick ...

Father made request after he found nurse Tonya Battle ... Mich., hospital accused of honoring of a swastika-tattooed man's request that African-American nurses not care for his newborn.

"They did not want a Black-controlled hospital in the middle of Alabama ... And Esther Bullock was the first African-American chief nurse. "This is a time where Black people fought for their ...

In between, she set up hospital wards in Japan ... in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring for ...

“She knew she was destined to become a nurse — she ... While at Bon Secours Hospital, she was introduced to her future husband James E. Hodges Jr., the first African American to graduate ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was ... assignment took her to Lowell General Hospital in Fort Devens, Mass., ...

One exhibit inside the new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, describes the accomplishments of Black leaders in health care, including nurse-midwife Maude Callen.

She became the first African American female hospital CEO in Alabama in 2001 as director of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, then a county-owned facility. She served at the helm until 2012 when the ...