Four years later, after working tirelessly for approval, the Women’s Hospital Association gained full approval by the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons, largely thanks to McLaren. In 1924, McLaren became the general superintendent of the Women’s Hospital, a 29-bed, community non-profit hospital on Lapeer Street in Flint. In the 1920s, there were very few women in leadership roles, and yet, McLaren excelled in her career beyond expectations, gaining respect from those she worked with for her standards of patient care. McLaren came to Flint in 1922, when she was offered the surgical supervisor position at Hurley Hospital. She graduated with the highest honor in 1920 and spent two years of private duty nursing, refusing several hospital positions in Detroit because she felt she needed the experience of working as, what was considered at the time, a general duty nurse. Leaving Canada for Detroit, she entered the Nurse’s Training School of Grace Hospital. It wasn’t until the youngest of them entered school, when McLaren was 28, that she had the opportunity to pursue nursing. The first hospital in the nation to be named after a nurse, McLaren Flint is one of the few in the nation to be named after a woman, Margaret Eliza McLaren.īorn in 1888 in Kent, Ontario, Canada, McLaren lived a simple life, leaving school at 16 years old to help her mother work the family farm and raise her seven younger siblings. Read on for a bit of this woman’s history. The month-long celebration recognizes the important contributions made by women through programs in schools, workplaces and communities.įlint has no shortage of notable women in its history! The name McLaren may be well-known, but many people may not know that the health care system was named after a nurse.
March is National Women’s History Month, designated as such to honor the extraordinary achievements of American women.
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