Honoring Florence Wald, Hospice Pioneer

On Saturday, Nov. 8, Florence “Eppie” Wald, one of hospice’s leading pioneers, died at her home in Branford, CT. Back in 1965, Wald, then Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, invited Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, England to become a visiting faculty member of the Yale School of Nursing…