From 1988 through 2014, 98 healthcare luminaries were inducted into the Health Care Hall of Fame, housed at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. They represent trailblazers from all sectors of the industry, including familiar names dating to the American Revolution and the Civil War and the many generations since. Below are their names and the year they were inducted.
Past inductees of the Health Care Hall of Fame
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Percy Allen II
2011
Robert M. “Bob” Ball
1999
Clara Barton
1993
Karl Bays
2001
Howard Berman
2012
Nancy Brinker
2007
Fred Brown
2014
Ray E. Brown
1988
Robin C. Buerki
1989
George Bugbee
1989
Mother Francesca Xavier Cabrini
1992
Patricia Cahill
2009
Ida M. Cannon
1997
Charles P. Cardwell Jr.
2007
H. Robert Cathcart
1997
Wilbur J. Cohen
1988
John Colloton
2003
Denton Cooley
2013
Donald W. Cordes
1992
George W. Crile
1997
Edwin L. Crosby
1996
Robert M. Cunningham Jr.
1991
Richard Davidson
2012
Graham Lee Davis
1993
Michael M. Davis
2002
Michael E. DeBakey
1996
Paul M. Ellwood Jr.
2000
Abraham Flexner
1990
Loretta C. Ford
1995
Benjamin Franklin
1988
Thomas F. Frist Jr.
2003
Thomas F. Frist Sr.
1990
Sidney R. Garfield
1988
Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin
2008
William B. Graham
1993
John Griffith
2014
Frank Groner
1988
Pat Groner
2008
James A. Hamilton
1998
T. Stewart Hamilton
1999
Gerhard Hartman
1991
Sister Mary Gerald Hartney
2002
Allen Hicks
2001
William A. Hillenbrand
1991
Sister Grace Marie Hiltz
1995
Harold W. Hinderer
1991
Yoshi Honkawa
2014
Robert Wood Johnson
1990
L.R. “Rush” Jordan
2000
Henry J. Kaiser
2011
Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy
2010
David Kinzer
1995
C. Everett Koop
1997
Sister Irene Kraus
1996
Bernard J. Lachner
1998
Eleanor C. Lambertsen
1989
Mary Woodard Lasker
1990
Margaret Daugherty Lewis
1991
Vernon R. Loucks Jr.
2006
James E. Ludlam
2002
Malcolm T. MacEachern
1988
John R. Mannix
1989
Charles Mayo
2009
William Mayo
2009
Foster G. McGaw
1989
John Alexander McMahon
1995
Walter McNerney
1996
Wade Mountz
2008
Stanley R. Nelson
1999
D. Kirk Oglesby Jr.
2006
Scott Parker
2005
Andrew Pattullo
1990
Boone Powell Sr.
1988
Haynes Rice
2000
Elliott C. Roberts Sr.
1998
Sister Mary Roch Rocklage
2011
C. Rufus Rorem
1988
Austin Ross
2010
Ruth Rothstein
2004
Sister M. Maurita Sengelaub
2013
Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton
1988
Robert Shelton
2004
Robert Sigmond
2001
C. Thomas Smith
2006
Anne Ramsay Somers
1992
Andrew Taylor Still
1993
Richard Stull
1996
Luther Terry
2004
John Devereaux Thompson
1995
Samuel J. Tibbitts
1997
Robert E. Toomey
1993
Lillian Wald
1988
Robert Waller
2003
Gail L. Warden
2007
Donald Wegmiller
2013
Stuart A. Wesbury Jr.
2005
Kenneth T. Wessner
1992
Dan Wilford
2009
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