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Behind the Door article:
Behind the Door: Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
December 19, 2008
Source: Community Partnership Update/January 2009
Part of a continuing series of articles highlighting key institutions in the Clifton community.
 Today it sits at 1520 Clifton Road, at the corner of Houston Mill and Clifton roads. But over the past 103 years, Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has moved seven times as it emerged as one of the top nursing schools in the country.
The School of Nursing started in 1905 as the Wesley Memorial Hospital Training School, located adjacent to a 50-bed hospital in downtown Atlanta at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Courtland Street. In the 1920s, the school moved to Emory's emerging campus on Clifton Road, and for a time, operated in what is now Harris Residence Hall, next to Emory University Hospital.
In 1944, the nursing school became an independent school of the University, and offered its own baccalaureate and graduate programs.
In 1968, the school was named for Nell Hodgson Woodruff, the wife of Coca-Cola President Robert Woodruff, and was housed off Asbury Circle, behind the current Emory University Hospital. In 2001, the school moved to its current location on Clifton Road between the Rollins School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its 100-plus years, the school has graduated over 10,000 nurses who have led the way in patient care, public health, research, health education and public policy. Today, more than 200 baccalaureate, master's and doctoral students graduate each year, and the school is ranked as one of the top 10 private U.S. nursing schools.
Whether providing wellness care to the homeless in downtown Atlanta at the Gateway Center, providing health care to migrant farming families in south Georgia, or traveling to the Caribbean to care for the mentally and physically ill, Emory's nursing students are making their mark through the school's service learning programs.
What's next for the School of Nursing? Late next spring, Dr. Linda McCauley will join the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing as its seventh dean. Currently, Dr. McCauley is the associate dean for research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
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