2014 year in review
Courier Program
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he new community-based Courier Program, following in the legacy of our original 1500 Couriers’ contributions to the Frontier community, entered its second year with Frontier Nursing University with a terrific group of Couriers. Modern Couriers, usually undergraduate students, are assigned to do service at rural health clinics and birth centers in the Appalachian region under mentorship of FNU nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives. The goals of the modern Courier Program are to: • introduce Couriers to the value of public health, advanced practice nursing, and primary healthcare services to people living in rural and underserved communities • support clinical and other community sites by meeting critical needs that would otherwise go unmet • foster cultural humility through Courier engagement with diverse communities and fellow Couriers • facilitate Couriers’ experience of FNU’s mission in action and encourage them to embody the Frontier legacy in their later vocations and personal lives.
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In Summer 2014, FNU hosted eight Couriers. Emily Scotto, originally from western Massachusetts, served at the White House Clinic in McKee, Ky. Aimee Jakeman is majoring in Integrative Physiology and minoring in Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She served the Mountain Comprehensive Healthcare Women’s Clinic in Whitesburg, Ky, as her future
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goal is to become a certified Nurse-Midwife. Yi Lian Klimecki of Tucson, AZ, is a nursing student at Seattle University and served the Women’s Wellness and Maternity Center in Madisonville, TN. Lee Ann Adelsheim, who served the ARH Mary Breckinridge Hospital system, is from Pittsburgh, PA and attends Allegheny College. She is interested in global public health. Diane Kim hails from San Jose, CA and attends Williams College where she is in the pre-med program. She served the Hazard Clinic in Hazard, Ky. Matt Wilson, of Newbury, NH, served the ARH Mary Breckinridge Hospital system. He currently attends Colby College in Maine. Marissa Savoie is from California and attends Columbia University. She served the Lisa Ross Birth Center in Knoxville, TN. Rachel Tullio served the Little Flower Clinic in Hazard, KY, and hails from Rochester, NY. She currently attends Notre Dame where she is a premed student with a double minor in poverty studies and anthropology. The 2014 Couriers amassed a total of 1500 volunteer service hours to clinics and community groups during the summer. Every Courier of the group said they would recommend the program to others and 90% of the program’s sites signed up to host a Courier again in 2015. A special THANK YOU was extended to FNU alumni at these sites who make this program possible by mentoring our couriers in the FNU model of leadership and healthcare.
2014 Couriers (left to right): Aimee Jakeman, Rachel Tulio, Marissa Savoie, Diane Kim, Yi Lian Klimecki, Lee Ann Adelsheim, Matt Wilson, Emily Scotto
president ’ s 2014 annual report