Mary Breckinridge, Nurse
Title
Mary Breckinridge, Nurse
Description
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. She was known for helping many people with her hospitals. After equipping herself for the challenging nurse-midwife job to the rural America, Mary Breckinridge began serving in Kentucky in 1925, wherein she introduced the new system of rural health care. In that same year, she established Frontier Nursing Service, providing care for low service fee. In areas covered, maternal and neonatal mortality rates significantly dropped. FNS is still serving mothers and children down to this very day.
Creator
U.S. Postal Service
Date
1998
Source
https://arago.si.edu/media/000/036/261/36261_lg.jpg
Relation
Source: Mary Breckinridge. (2012, August 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from http://bit.ly/RxWZUw
Rights
Publisher
The Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Contributor
U.S. Postal Service
Format
Medium: Postage Stamp
Language
English
Type
Figures
Identifier
Mary Breckinridge, Nursing, Healthcare, Rural Healthcare, Public Health
Coverage
Historic
Files
Collection
Reference
U.S. Postal Service, Mary Breckinridge, Nurse, The Smithsonian National Postal Museum , 1998
Cite As
U.S. Postal Service, “Mary Breckinridge, Nurse,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 24, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/237.