 Florence Nightingale had been a former student at this school.Two years later she returned to Norway and at the age of 28 she established the Christiania Deaconess House ("Diakonissehuset Christiania") and started Norway's first professional nursing program.The school was first situated at Grønland and from 1887 on its own grounds at Lovisenberg in Oslo, where the facility now known as Lovisenberg Deaconess college ("Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole") still resides.