FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, INC.
Its motto: y
"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:
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 rural
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 conditionsinimical 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 of them 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 rural districts
with the help of their own leading citizens. _·
From the Articles of Incorporation of the `_
Frontier Nursing Service, Article IH
as amended June 8, 1984