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2. Frontier Nursing Service - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Wendover (Hyden, Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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   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).

4. Frontier Nursing University - Wikipedia

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   Frontier Nursing University was founded in 1939 as the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery. The Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery graduated its first class in 1940. In 1970, the school was renamed the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing with the opening of the nation's first family nurse practitioner education program. In 1989 ...

5. ‘Do they not care?’ Kentucky faces huge backlog of nursing ...

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   Special Report: As of June, 73 percent of Kentucky’s 277 nursing homes were listed as going more than two years without a so-called “annual” inspection. It’s putting patients at risk.

6. Mary Carson Breckinridge - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Louisville nursing homes closing because of rats ‘as big as ...

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   Tom Watts, president of Exceptional Living Centers, declined to comment Tuesday, as did the company’s attorneys. The company continues to operate 25 nursing homes across Kentucky and six other ...

8. Childbirth in rural Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   One of the buildings on the campus of the Frontier Nursing University (on Hickory Street) in Hyden, Kentucky, United States. In 1925 Mary Breckinridge founded the Kentucky Committee For Mothers and Babies, which three years later became the Frontier Nursing Service. Breckinridge created the organization to address the inadequate health care ...

9. Should you sign this form when entering a Kentucky nursing ...

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