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Lydia Hall was a nursing theorist who developed the Care, Cure, Core model of nursing.

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She was an advocate for chronically ill patients and worked to involve the community in public health issues. She also was very supportive of nurses in all phases of their careers.

Early Life and Education

Hall was born on September 21, 1906, in New York City as Lydia Eloise Williams.

She was the first born of Louis V. and Anna Ketterman Williams and was named after her maternal grandmother.

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Her brother, Henry, was several years younger. When she was very young, her family moved to York, Pennsylvania, where her father was a physician in general practice.

After graduating from York Hospital School of Nursing in 1927 with a diploma in nursing, Hall felt as if she needed more education.

She entered Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing in 1932. After a number of years in clinical practice, she resum