Hall, Lydia E. (1906–1969)
Hall, Lydia E. (1906–1969)
American nurse. Name variations: Lydia Eloise Hall; Lydia Williams. Born Lydia Williams, Sept 21, 1906, in New York, NY; died Feb 27, 1969, at Queens Hospital; dau. of Anna Ketterman Williams and Louis U. Williams (surgeon); graduate of New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1927; Columbia University Teachers College, MA, 1942; m. Reginald A. Hall, 1945.
Pioneer in nurse-led care, was a nurse in Pennsylvania and New York; worked at New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Life Extension Institute (1930–35) and on research staff of New York Heart Association (1935–40); was a supervisor for Visiting Nurse Association of New York (1941–47); began developing a Columbia University academic program to teach nurses to be consultants (1950); was project director, then administrative director, of the Loeb Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, the 1st institution where nurses were in charge rather than doctors and which focused on patients' emotional well-being as well as physical.