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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 ...
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 accessible by horseback.
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).
UK HealthCare in Eastern Kentucky The proposed acquisition will preserve an “asset” of Eastern Kentucky, Lloyd said, citing St. Claire’s 1.25 million patient encounters last fiscal year.
Hospital [1] County City Bed count [2] Type Founded Closed Health system [1]; AdventHealth Manchester (Manchester Memorial Hospital) Clay: Manchester: 63: General: 1917
Albert B. Chandler in Lexington is the best hospital in Kentucky for the ninth year in a row, according to U.S. News and World Report.. Along with being named best in the state, Chandler was named ...
A jury has awarded a former Eastern Kentucky hospital employee $2.4 million in damages after she alleged that medical center administrators directed her to convince patients to have themselves ...
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 Frontier Nursing ...