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FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, INC. ]
Its motto: ‘
"He shall gather the lambs with his arm
and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young." `
Isaiah 40:11
Its object: t
To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and children by
providing and preparing trained nurse-midwives for rural areas
where there is inadequate medical service; to give skilled care to
women in childbirth; to give nursing care to the sick of both sexes
and all ages; to establish, own, maintain and operate hospitals,
clinics, nursing centers, and midwife training schools for graduate
nurses; to carry out preventive public health measures; to educate
the mral population in the laws of health, and parents in baby
hygiene and child care; to provide expert social service; to obtain
medical, dental and surgical services for those who need them, at
a price they can afford to pay; to promote the general welfare of
the elderly and handicapped; to ameliorate economic conditions
inimical to health and growth, and to conduct research toward
that end; to do any and all other things in any way incident to, or
connected with, these objects, and, in pursuit ofthem to cooperate
with individuals and with organizations, private, state or federal;
and through the fulfillment of these aims to advance the cause of
health, social welfare and economic independence in tural districts
with the help of their own leading citizens. , Y
From the Articles of Incorporation ofthe
Frontier Nursing Service. Article lll
as amended June 8. 1984
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