How Philadelphia's Mercy-Douglass Hospital Blazed A Trail For Black Women In Nursing

CBS Philadelphia

February 26, 2026

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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