Dorothy E. Yates Endowment Fund for Nursing Education

The Dorothy E. Yates Endowment for Nursing Education was established in 2015 through a gift from Ms. Yates’ estate. Ms. Yates was a 1937 graduate of Rush predecessor Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing and former head nurse at Presbyterian Hospital during the 1940s and ’50s.

Dorothy Yates, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 101, was among the forward-thinking people who believed nurses can make serious breakthroughs in health care. The estate gift was one of several ways that Yates supported nursing education at Rush throughout her life. In 1998 she established the Dorothy Yates Endowed Scholarship Fund, and her magnificent bequest benefits nursing PhD students.