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To safeguard the lives and health of mothers and children by providing and preparing trained nurse-midwives and nurse-practitioners 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 educational programs for nurse-midwives and nurse-practitioners;
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 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 of them to cooperate with individual and with organizations, private, state or federal;
And thought 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 Incorporations of the Frontier Nursing Service. Article III as amended June 8, 1984.
