Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965
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Name (Latin)
Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965
Date of birth
1881-02-17
Date of death
1965-06-16
Associated country
Switzerland
United States
Occupation
Midwives
Nurses
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Biographical or Historical Data
Organized Frontier Nursing Service in 1925
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Sources of Information
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(Organized Frontier Nursing Service in 1925)
- Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:page 119 ("Mary Carson Breckinridge" born in Memphis, Tn., spent her childhood in Arkansas, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Switzerland. Earned a nursing degree from St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. After the death of two children she devoted the rest of her life to maternal and child health, taking courses at London's british Mothers and Babies Hospital until she became a certified nurse-midwife. Established what was later called the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 in Hyden, Ky. and the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery in 1970. Died May 16, 1965 in Hyden, Ky.)
- Her Wide neighborhoods, 1952.
- Mary Breckinridge, 2008:ECIP galley (b. Feb. 17, 1881, Mary Carson Breckinridge)
Wikipedia description:
Mary Carson Breckinridge (February 17, 1881 – May 16, 1965) 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 accessible by horseback. She modeled her services on European practices and sought to professionalize American nurse-midwives to practice autonomously in homes and decentralized clinics. Although Breckinridge's work demonstrated efficacy by dramatically reducing infant and maternal mortality in Appalachia, at a comparatively low cost, her model of nurse-midwifery never took root in the United States.
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