Frontier Nursing Service | |
Location | Hospital Hill, off Hickory St., Hyden, Kentucky |
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Coordinates | 37°09′55″N 83°22′45″W / 37.16528°N 83.37917°W |
Area | 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) |
Built | 1928 |
NRHP reference No. | 90002126[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 11, 1991 |
The Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939.
The Service maintains six rural healthcare clinics in eastern Kentucky, the Mary Breckinridge Hospital (now part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare[2]), the Mary Breckinridge Home Health Agency, the Frontier Nursing University and the Bed and Breakfast Inn at Wendover, Kentucky.