Annie Warburton Goodrich

Annie Warburton Goodrich (February 6, 1866 – December 31, 1954) was an American nurse and academic. She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. Her grandfather was John S. Butler.

She entered the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1890 and graduated in 1892

During World War I she became chief nursing inspector for the U.S. Army hospitals and organized the U.S. Army School of Nursing. Key decisions about nursing were made by Goodrich along with Jane Delano, director of the Red Cross Nursing Service, and Mary Adelaide Nutting, president of the American Federation of Nurses. She was the first Dean of Yale School of Nursing from 1923 In 1976, she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.

Life Annie Warburton Goodrich was born February 6, 1866, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her grandfather, John S. Butler, was a psychiatrist and founder of the Institute of Living, one of the country's first mental health centers. Her family moved around a fair bit in her early life, including years spent in England and France, but most of Goodrich's early life was spent in Hartford, Connecticut. Friends of the family included Samuel Clemens, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gillette.

She graduated from nursing school in 1892, and was appointed nursing superintendent at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. There, she established a high-school diploma as a prerequisite for nursing students. She went on to become superintendent at St. Luke's Hospital, where she developed a primary-care model of nursing in which nurses provided individualized care for fewer patients, rather than "assembly-line" care for all patients who entered the hospital. In 1902 she became Superintendent of Nursing at New York Hospital. In 1904, she became an assistant professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, where she taught a course on hospital economics. In 1907 she became General Superintendent at Bellevue Hospital, and by 1917 serving as director for the Henry Street Settlement's Visiting Nurses Service while still teaching at Columbia.