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Frontier Nursing ServiceMary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in Leslie County, Kentucky in 1925, introducing the first nurse-midwives to the United States. Riding horses up mountains, through fog, flood, or snow the FNS nurses brought modern healthcare to one of the poorest and most inaccessible areas in the U.S. She demonstrated that care provided by nurse-midwives acting as nurses to the total family would drastically cut infant and maternal mortality and also morbidity and mortality for the entire community.
Rev. 12/30/04 FNS motto:
FNS Object:To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and children by providing and preparing trained nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners for rural areas where there is inadequate medical service; to give skilled care to women in childbirth; to give nursing care to the sick of both sexes and all ages; to establish, own, maintain and operate hospitals, clinics, nursing centers, and educational programs for nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to carry out preventive public health measures; to educate the rural population in the laws of health, and parents in baby hygiene and child care; to provide expert social service; to obtain medical, dental and surgical services for those who need them, at a price they can afford to pay; to promote the general welfare of the elderly and handicapped; to ameliorate economic conditions inimical to health and growth, and to conduct research toward that end; to do any and all other things in any way incident to, or connected with, these objects, and in pursuit of them to cooperate with individuals and with organizations, private, state or federal; and through the fulfillment of these aims to advance the cause of health, social welfare and economic independence in rural districts with the help of their own leading citizens. From the Articles of Incorporation
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