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Mary Carson Breckinridge, American nurse midwife, founded Frontier Nursing Service (died 1965)
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Mary Carson Breckinridge
Founder of the American FNS (1881–1965)
Mary Carson Breckinridge 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Frontier Nursing Service
American rural healthcare service
The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)