In 2025, Frontier Nursing University honors and celebrates 100 years of healthcare service and education since our inception as Frontier Nursing Service in 1925. That was the year that Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) to provide care to mothers, children, and families in rural eastern Kentucky. In its early years, FNS offered scholarships to American nurses to go to Great Britain for training in nurse-midwifery and recruited British nurse-midwives. In 1939, FNS established the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery, now known as Frontier Nursing University (FNU).
As we celebrate this important milestone, Frontier will be sharing the countless stories that make up our history. It is impossible to adequately tell every story of service, leadership, and impact from the last 100 years at Frontier. Understanding that, A Century of Stories is not a ranking of top moments or individuals. It is simply an opportunity to share a variety of stories of the people, moments, groups, decisions, and experiences that have brought FNU to where it is today.
The purpose of this project is to celebrate FNU’s history through the stories of those who have lived it, the events that have shaped it, and those who have supported it. These stories will be shared throughout the year via FNU’s many forms of communication, including social media, our website, and print and digital publications and newsletters. Please click here to share your own story with us!
