Delano, Jane A., (1862–1919), an American nurse who organized the American Red Cross Nursing Service, an association formed to supply nurses to the military forces. She became director of the Nurses’ Training School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1891 and was later appointed director of the Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses in New York, where she had been trained. On a trip to survey nursing conditions in Europe, she died after surgery for a mastoid infection at Base Hospital, Savenay, France, in March 1919.
