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The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939.. The Service maintains six rural healthcare clinics in eastern Kentucky, the Mary Breckinridge Hospital (now part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare [2]), the Mary Breckinridge Home Health Agency, the Frontier Nursing University and the Bed and ...
July 17, 1991. Wendover, also known as Frontier Nursing Service or Big House, is a historic house and former medical care facility near Hyden, Kentucky. Built in 1925, it is notable for its association with the American effort to professionalize midwifery, led by Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965). It was headquarters of the Frontier Nursing ...
Kentucky. , United States. 38°9′56″N 83°22′45″W / 38.16556°N 83.37917°W / 38.16556; -83.37917. Website. www.frontier.edu. Frontier Nursing University is a private graduate school of nursing in Versailles, Kentucky. It was established by the Frontier Nursing Service in 1939 as the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family ...
Mary Carson Breckinridge. Mary Carson Breckinridge (February 17, 1881 – May 16, 1965) was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the mountain people of rural Kentucky. FNS served remote and impoverished areas off the road and rail system but ...
The Forgotten Frontier. The Forgotten Frontier is a 1931 American documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the ...
37°09′55″N 83°22′45″W. / 37.165278°N 83.379167°W / 37.165278; -83.379167 ( Frontier Nursing Service) Hyden. 2. Roderick McIntosh Farm. Roderick McIntosh Farm. November 7, 1991. ( #91001666) South of Dry Hill-McIntosh Rd. on the confluence of McIntosh and Cutshin Creeks.
coordinates of the point of view. 37°9'54.000"N, 83°22'41.999"W. ... Frontier Nursing Service; National Register of Historic Places listings in Leslie County, Kentucky;
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