C) Lillian Wald began home visiting in new York city and is famed for professionalizing visiting nurse. it was the ladies Benevolent Society in Charleston, south Caroline who made the earliest known efforts to care for the sick at home. it was Florence Nightingale who trained nurses so that wealthy women would hire them as visiting nurse. Lillian Wald did establish insurance coverage for home care with the Metropolitan life Insurance company but this was in the early 1900 and the Medicare home health Benefit did not exist until 1965.
