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Jan 01, 0001 Wallace, United States Died on 02 Feb 2010 (aged 2009)
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About Mary Lee Mills
- Mary Lee Mills (August 1912 – February 2, 2010) was an American nurse.
- Born into a family of eleven children, she attended the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing and graduated in a nursing degree and became a registered nurse.
- After working as a midwife, she joined the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in 1946 and served as their chief nursing officer of Liberia, working to hold some of their first campaigns in public health education.
- Mills later worked in Lebanon and established the country's first nursing school, and helped to combat treatable diseases.
- She was later assigned to South Vietnam, Cambodia and Chad to provide medical education. Mills retired from the USPHS in 1966 and was employed by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and was made their nursing consultant in the migrant health program.
- She retired full-time in 1976 but remained active in her local community.
- She is the recipient of several awards including the National Order of the Cedar, and was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2012.
