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Golda M. Edinburg, 87; elevated role of social work in hospitals

By Stephanie M. Peters

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 19, 2012

Creating and directing the social work department at McLean Hospital in Belmont from 1956 until 1993, Golda M. Edinburg helped forge a model that would be imitated by hospitals around the country. “What she did at McLean was really ensure that social work was a vital part of the clinical team, that social workers are trained, master’s-level clinicians who have a role both in the hospital and after a patient’s discharge,’’ said Marylou Sudders, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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