Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia by Melanie Beals Goan

Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service & Rural Health in Appalachia

Melanie Beals Goan

348 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 hea...

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