Annie Warburton Goodrich

Annie Warburton Goodrich was an American nurse and academic, born on 6 February 1866 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. She entered the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1890, graduated in 1892 and stayed on to work there before moving to St. Luke's Hospital. In 1902 she became Superintendent of Nursing at New York Hospital, and in 1907 General Superintendent at Bellevue Hospital, while teaching hospital economics at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1904. By 1917 she also directed the Visiting Nurses Service of the Henry Street Settlement. In the First World War she served as chief nursing inspector for the United States Army hospitals and organized the U.S. Army School of Nursing. She became the first Dean of the Yale School of Nursing in 1923 and held the post until she retired in 1934, and in the Second World War she helped organize the Cadet Nurse Corps. She died on 31 December 1954 and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976.