August 12, 2012

Lena Lowe Jordan was an African-American registered nurse and hospital administrator who managed Arkansas Home and Hospital for Crippled Negro Children in Little Rock (Pulaski County), which by 1938 had become a general hospital for black patients named the Lena Jordan Hospital. In addition, she began a unique training program for young black women who wanted to become practical nurses.

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