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The history of Frontier Nursing Service focus of special virtual presentation
Mar 08, 2021
Miami University Department of Nursing, Miami Regionals Appalachian Studies, and the Hamilton Campus Women s History Month committee welcomes Susan E. Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN for a special virtual presentation on The History of Frontier Nursing Service on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. EST.
Dr. Stone, President of Frontier Nursing University and a certified nurse-midwife, will discuss the history of the Frontier Nursing Service, founded by Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965). This presentation explores the creation of the first nurse-midwifery service in the United States located in rural Kentucky. Frontier Nursing Service was designed as a demonstration project and focused on dramatically improving the health outcomes for rural families in an area with dire population health indicators. She will describe how the service came into being, how the nurse-midwives worked to fulfill the mission,
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A rural school district in Dutchess County is getting ready to construct a health center at its school. The center was supposed to be up and running by now but the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the process.
Charles Davis has been a school nurse at the Webutuck Central School District in Amenia since January 2017. He says the idea for a school-based health center grew, in part, from inspiration from another nurse and the school she founded, where he earned his nurse practitioner degree Frontier Nursing University.
“It was founded by a woman, a very famous nurse and her name is Mary Breckinridge, and she brought rural healthcare to the mountains of eastern Kentucky during the early 1920s when childbirth, when many women died in childbirth and, as a result, may newborns died as a result, Davis says. So what she did was bring healthcare, both midwifery as well as family care, to, again, the very remoted regions of Kentucky.”