[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 123 (Monday, October 4, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1787]
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  IN RECOGNITION OF THE PHILLIPS BETH ISRAEL SCHOOL OF NURSING ON ITS 
                         CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 4, 2004

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute the Phillips Beth Israel 
School of Nursing on the occasion of the centennial anniversary that it 
celebrates on October 9th and 10th, 2004.
  For one hundred years, the Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing has 
been one of the leading centers of professional nursing education in 
the United States. As with so many institutions in New York City, its 
roots first grew in Lower Manhattan, where it was founded as an adjunct 
to its namesake, Beth Israel Medical Center, the outstanding health 
care institution with which it has been so closely connected throughout 
its history.
  Created shortly after the establishment of the Beth Israel Hospital, 
the School of Nursing was first officially chartered by the New York 
State Board of Regents in 1904. Thus began its progression toward 
excellence, a standard that the School quickly met and proudly upholds 
to this day.
  Since its inception as a degree-granting institution, the Phillips 
Beth Israel School of Nursing has undergone significant changes 
reflective of the evolving nature of health care delivery over the 
course of the last century. During World War II, the Beth Israel 
Training School for Nurses, as it was then called, participated in the 
U.S. Cadet Nursing Program under the terms of the Bolton Act, which 
provided subsidies to train nursing students for combat duty. As that 
great conflict was ending, Seymour J. Phillips, a Beth Israel trustee, 
Chairman of the Phillips Van Heusen Company, and a leading 
philanthropist of the day, became Chairman of the School, which was 
renamed in his honor four decades later. In 1978, the School of Nursing 
received approval to grant the degree of Associate in Applied Science 
in Nursing. A major academic affiliation was established in 1983 with 
Pace University offering the liberal arts component of the curriculum. 
The Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing also has entered into 
articulation agreements with Pace and New York University to offer its 
students the opportunity to pursue a baccalaureate degree.
  In 1985, the Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing received full 
accreditation from the National League for Nursing, and was 
reaccredited in 2002 for a full eight years. Under the able leadership 
of its current Dean, Janet Mackin, RN, EdD, the School continues to 
advance its mission with a view to its long term future, and is 
preparing to move into new facilities located at 6th Avenue and 27th 
Street in Manhattan. Its current curriculum prepares graduates to 
practice nursing in the realities of today's health care system, but 
throughout its century-old tradition of excellence, it has maintained a 
constant goal: educating nurses to practice with a philosophy of caring 
and compassion.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in saluting a century of 
achievement by a proud New York institution, the Phillips Beth Israel 
School of Nursing.

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