Metropolitan Life Insurance
"The year 1909 marked an important era in visiting nursing. In that year, at the suggestion of the Settlement, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company undertook the nursing of industrial policy-holders, employing our nurses to care for these patients. They, thereby, contributed an enormous impetus to education in hygiene in the homes, and the treatment of the sick, on the only basis that makes it possible for the person of small means to receive nursing without charity, namely through insurance."
Lillian Wald, Report of the Henry Street Settlement
Lillian Wald, Report of the Henry Street Settlement
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In 1909, Lillian Wald urged the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to invest and hire visiting nurses to care for their policyholders.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1909
Source: Shorpy, 1909
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Metropolitan Life Ad
Source: University of Viriginia, 1879
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The insurance company took up Lillian Wald and hired nurses from Henry Street visit their sick policyholders throughout the city.
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By 1911, Metropolitan Life began to offer nursing services throughout the entire country.
A visiting nurse caring for a policyholder.
Source: University of Virginia, Year Unknown
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Commercial in 1981
Source: YouTube, 1981 |