How She Was Successful

 

Mary Eliza Mahoney's journey in field of healthcare  began when she started to work at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Although she was not a nurse initially at the Hospital, she worked at the hospital as a janitor, cook, washerwoman, and as a nurse's aide. After fifteen years of working at the hospital, at the age of 33, she was accepted into and successfully graduated from the Hospital's nursing school, which was also America's first.  Later in her life, she became the director of the Howard Orphan Asylum in Long Island, New York. She was also inducted into both the Nursing Hall of Fame in the first group of honorees in 1976, and the National Women's Hall of Fame.