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BAHL, Ida
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BAHL, Ida. (Dubuque County, IA, Oct. 31, 1898--Dubuque, IA, Jan. 13, 1994). Soon after graduation from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Dubuque, Bahl entered the U.S. Indian Service and was sent to a Navajo hospital at Ft. Defiance, Arizona. For the next twenty-three years, she worked in other hospitals serving the health interests of the Chickasaw and Choctaw in Oklahoma, Chippewa, and Pottawattomie in Wisconsin, SAUK and FOX in Iowa, Acoma in New Mexico, and the Hoopa in California.
Bahl published numerous articles in such publications as the American Journal of Nursing, Good Housekeeping, and Nursing Outlooks. Bahl also wrote Nursing Among the Navajos, a book she self-published in 1984.
