Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing

Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, at Ganado Mission in Ganado, Arizona, was the first accredited nursing programme for Native American women in the United States. It eventually drew students from more than 50 Native American tribes as well as women of Mexican, Spanish, Inuit, Japanese, Filipino and Chinese descent, at a time when accredited nursing education was not generally open to non-white students elsewhere in the country. Some white parents sought to have their daughters admitted because of the quality of the training, but the school's director, Dr Clarence G. Salsbury, chose to maintain the programme solely for minority students, a decision made during a period of active public school segregation. The school was designated a National Historic Landmark on 16 January 2009.

Where it is

Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing is a historic site near Ganado, in Apache County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.