Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center The Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center, formerly known as the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, was a hospital. Currently, it is a nursing care facility, but was the birthplace of former United States President James Earl Carter Jr., who was born there on October 1, 1924 when his mother was working there as a registered nurse. Originally built in 1921 by Doctors Samuel, Thaddeus and Bowman Wise, children of early Plains settlers Dr. Burr T. Wise and Laura Addy Wise, the 60-bed sanitarium was one of the first small hospitals in Georgia to be recognized
Lillian Beard Lillian Beard Lillian McLean Beard (born 1943), is a pediatrician and has served as a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. With the mission of reaching patients within their homes, Lillian M. Beard utilized various forms of mass communication, from magazine publications to television news sources, to reach the homes of innumerable women. Lillian McLean was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Beard decided at an early age to pursue medicine. Living with single mother, Woodie McLean, and a younger sister, McLean was dedicated to her studies from the beginning of her formal education. Traveling two hours each