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Mills-Peninsula School Of Diagnostic Imaging Launching Careers, Fulfilling Needs In The Medical Industry For Decades

In 1908, philanthropy efforts by Elisabeth Mills Reid created what is now Sutter Health's Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame.

(CBS San Francisco)

March 26, 2024

A Bay Area school that has been preparing women for a career as a medical professional with tuition-free instruction, now in its sixth decade, is responding to an industry shortage with newly-minted graduates.

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In 1908, philanthropy efforts by Elisabeth Mills Reid created what is now Sutter Health's Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame. But Reid's efforts didn't stop there. Throughout her life, she also founded schools to help train nurses.

In 1963, Mills-Peninsula followed her lead and founded the tuition-free, School of Diagnostic Imaging where most of the hundreds of graduates to date have been women.

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