Happy Birthday, Florence Nightingale

Nurse Appreciation Week

May 12 is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.  During the Crimean War, Nightingale and her team reduced a British military hospital’s death rate from 42 percent to 2 percent, mostly by introducing sanitary reforms

SALT’s “Theologian’s Almanac,” a weekly selection of important birthdays, holidays, and other upcoming milestones