Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 9, 1940
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Miss Rhoda F. Reddig, formerly an instructor in nursing at the Presbyterian School of Nursing, New York City, has been appointed to succeed Miss Marian Durell whose resignation as director of nursing at University Hospital becomes effective Feb. 15.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 5, 1940
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Nurses of the Public Health Nursing Association perform two main services: Caring for those already ill, and helping the healthy keep free of disease. The Ann Arbor city health department has no nurses on its staff, so the nursing association assists the department in checking up on suspected cases of communicable disease and in conducting clinics where children of low-income families are immunized against smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough. One of the Public Health nurses is shown above aiding Dr. John A. Wessinger, city health officer, in immunizing a girl during a clinic. The nurses also are kept busy every day answering calls from persons who are bed-ridden at home, or need a bandage changed; from new mothers who need help and advice - and from others with almost every kind of request. They work under physicians' orders. Their fees are adjusted to the income of the family, and many calls are made without charge. Contributions to the Community Fund, whose annual campaign opens Monday, help maintain this public service.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 2, 1939
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In days gone past a kind hearted neighbor usually volunteered her service as a "practical" nurse in times of illness, but today that demonstration of typically American good-neighborliness is inadequate to cope with the problem of sickness. Expert, trained nurses are required. To fill that gap, the Public Health Nursing Association, through the support of "good neighbor" donations to the Community Fund, provides part time nursing services in the home by graduate nurses for those unable to afford the care they need in sickness and maternity cases. Working in co-operation with physicians and the State Health Department, the agency's nurses are available following operations or in time of chronic or sudden illness, they furnish care and advice to prospective new mothers; they help prevent, isolate and treat cases of communicable disease. Appreciation for the helpful care and advice to the less fortunate in time of sickness is typified by the scene shown in the above photograph, as a grateful mother and her two children bid farewell to one o the association's nurses.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 21, 1943
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COEDS BECOME NURSES' AIDES: Red Cross certificates authorizing a class of 35 nurses' aides - the first University class - to join the ranks of women who are relieving the nursing shortage in Washtenaw county's hospitals, clinics and health services, as one of their contributions to the war effort, were given out at graduation exercises yesterday afternoon in North Hall. Mrs. Jessie E. Coller, chairman of volunteer services, presented the certificates, which qualify their holders to assist doctors and nurses and act in emergency disaster relief capacities. Two more classes will begin Feb. 8, and women interested in offering their services may register by Monday at the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office in the Armory.