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Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. Midwives from England helped bring medical service that saved hundreds of mothers and babies in the remote hollows and hills of Clay, Leslie, and Perry counties. In 1928, a 28-bed hospital opened in Hyden, and in 1939 the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery was founded, one of three such schools in the U.S.
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