...a group of nurses who risked their lives to take care of tuberculosis patients at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island and who were an important part of reducing deaths from the bacterial disease in the U.S.
Because tuberculosis is highly contagious, many white nurses refused to work with TB patients, and Black nurses from around the country were recruited to do the job at the Sea View Hospital, per . All in all, Sea View Hospital recruited around 300 nurses to care for thousands of patients and, in turn, they were one of just four municipal hospitals in the city that did not discriminate or have quotas against Black nurses, per the.
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