Mary Breckinridge
Rural health
Rural health services
Appalachian region
Nurses, biography
Nursing services
History, 20th Century
Nurses
Biography
History
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to t…
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