Mary Breckinridge

Mary Breckinridge
1881 - 1965
Mary Breckinridge  American Socialite
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First Name Mary
Last Name Breckinridge
Birthday 17th February, 1881
Birthplace Memphis, Tennessee
Died 16th May, 1965
Place of Death Hyden, Kentucky
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Nationality American
Occupation Socialite

Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881 – 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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