In addition to founding the clinical hospital, George Watts also established the Watts Hospital Training School for Nurses at the hospital, in 1895. Renamed the Watts School of Nursing (Watts SON) in 1976, the school's first graduate, Ethel Clay, received her nursing degree in 1897.
Now part of the Duke University Health System, Watts SON has been housed at Durham Regional Hospital since 1976.
Watts School of Nursing is now located on Croasdaile Drive in Durham, NC.
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