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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The Midwives of Appalachia Get Organized
Despite the region’s rich history of reproductive care, birth options remain incredibly limited. A group of midwives in Kentucky want to change that.
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When Laura Browning was pregnant for the first time, she knew what she wanted from her birth experience. She wanted a home birth with a midwife, ideally, and if that wasn’t possible, she wanted a nurse-midwife (who are typically hospital-based) to deliver her baby. She associated obstetricians with “quick in-and-out appointments” that lacked personal care and warmth. “I wanted to know who’s going to be delivering my baby who’s going to be catching my baby and have a relationship with them,” recalled Browning, who is now pregnant with her fourth child.
Naomi E. Drucker, Lilit B. Sarkissian
LOS ANGELES– Midwives, nurses and birth professionals from across California joined a Zoom celebration on Wednesday December 16 to congratulate Lilit B. Sarkissian, CNM, MSN, RNC-OB and Naomi E. Drucker, CNM, MSN, RNC on the “birth” of Los Angeles’ newest midwifery practice, Los Angeles Midwives, A Professional Nursing Corporation. With delivering privileges at a leading Westside hospital, Los Angeles Midwives provides home or hospital birth options to women in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Midwives’ co-founders are Certified Nurse-Midwives whose primary offering is birth services (delivery, prenatal and postpartum care) to expectant mothers, and Well-Woman Care to women ranging from 12 to 80 years old. The event was a chance to learn more about the founders, the type of care they provide, the future of birth in a post-COVID Los Angeles, and how midwives can help improve women’s health in California.
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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.”