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Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, MA
Contributed by Bertha Proctor

Massachusetts School of Nursing in Boston is one of the oldest schools of nursing in the country and was founded in 1873 along with Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in New York City and the Connecticut Training School in New Haven.

Although there were some prior developments, the founding of these three schools was a significant milestone in nursing education in the United States. They were modeled somwhat after the plan designed by Florence Nightingale when she established the first moden school of nursing at St. Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860.