History
In 1922, William Jennings Bryan gave his home, "Fairview," and surrounding land to the Nebraska Conference of the Methodist Church for the purpose of establishing a new hospital in Lincoln. Bryan Memorial Hospital opened a 60-bed hospital on June 6, 1926, shortly after William Jennings Bryan’s death.
The Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing also opened in 1926 and enrolled 37 students during that year. Fairview was used as the student dormitory.
The BryanLGH College of Health Sciences is an outgrowth of the Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. The College enjoys a close clinical partnership with BryanLGH Medical Center and now enrolls nearly three-hundred undergraduate and graduate students in Nursing, Allied Health, Nurse Anesthesia, and General Education courses.
The College has maintained the goal of excellence that was emphasized by its founders and continues to prepare nurses, healthcare professionals and lifelong learners with skills, awareness, interest and concern for health care and the human condition.
