“INTELLIGENT SAINTS”: THE BENEVOLENT ORIGINS OF HOSPITALS AND NURSING IN GRAND RAPIDS
Meeter Center Lecture HallKnown for its thriving medical institutions, it may surprise many that the very existence of a medical field in Grand Rapids is the result of the efforts of three different groups of charitable nineteenth-century women. Founders and leaders of medical charities in this city’s early history, these women were gradually pushed from the center of […]