FNU Quarterly Bulletin Spring 2018 Volume 93 Number 1

FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY | VOL. 93, NUMBER 1 | SPRING 2018

QUARTERLY BULLETIN

2018 ACNM Conference Dr. Susan Stone’s induction as President highlights American College of Nurse-Midwives Annual Meeting & Exhibition Frontier Nursing University • Quarterly Bulletin 1

Your Gifts at Work Dear Friends, Every day we have new students beginning their journey toward answering the call to improve the access to quality healthcare. Every day we have graduates across the country answering the call to serve their communities. Even so, our work is far from done. Unfortunately, over 58 million Americans reside in areas or belong to groups that are considered primary care shortage areas and over 50 percent of all rural counties are without maternity care. Maternal mortality rates have risen exponentially in the last 20 years.

With these statistics in mind, I ask that you join our students and graduates in their daily effort to increase access and quality of healthcare through our new initiative, #AnswertheCall365.

This initiative gives you the opportunity to donate a designated amount monthly to provide the ongoing support that ensures scholarships for FNU students. In return, not only do you have the satisfaction of knowing you support future graduates, but will also receive acknowledgment in FNU publications, social media, and web portal. A recurring donation is easy to set up and automatically goes to your credit card each month so you can help provide a steady stream of support without worrying about making separate donations each month.To join the 365 Club simply go to http://weblink.donorperfect.com/FNU_AnswertheCall365 and sign up for your monthly donation.

Since its inception, FNU has relied on the generosity of its friends for support. Gifts to FNU ensure the legacy of Mary Breckinridge is available to students and the families they will serve for years to come. I hope that we can count on you to answer the call with a recurring monthly donation.

To learn more about the many ways to support FNU, please visit: https://frontier.edu/how-to-donate/ Sincerely,

Denise Barrett Chief Advancement Officer, FNU

Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, FACNM President Joan Slager, CNM, DNP, CPC, FACNM Interim Dean of Nursing Anne Cockerham, PhD, CNM, WHNP-BC, CNE Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Tonya Nicholson, DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC, CNE, FACNM Associate Dean of Midwifery and Women’s Health Lisa Chappell, PhD, FNPBC Associate Dean of Family Nursing Deborah Karsnitz, DNP, CNM, FACNM Interim DNP Director Jacquelyne Brooks, DNP, MS ADN-MSN Bridge Director Michael Steinmetz, CPA, CMA, CSCA Executive Vice President for Finance and Facilities Shelley Aldridge, BA Chief Operations Officer Maria Valentin-Welch, CDIO, DNP, MPH, CDP, CNM, FACNM Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Denise Barrett, MBA Chief Advancement Officer

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Contents Features Susan Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 FNU at ACNM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Jonas Scholar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Alumni Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13 Courier Corner and Spotlight . . . . . . . . . .14 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Tributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Wendover Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Board of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Invest in FNU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Susan Stone (Cover) Photograph by Randy Thompson

P.O. Box 528 • 195 School Street Hyden, KY 41749 FNU@frontier.edu • 606.672.2312

From the President As you read this issue of the FNU Quarterly Bulletin, you will see further evidence of the growth and impact that Frontier Nursing University is having.

Our presence was felt in a significant way at the American College of Nurse-Midwives’ annual meeting. Not only was I proud to be inducted as ACNM’s new president, but many of our faculty were named as Fellows, received other recognitions and awards, and delivered presentations.

We are committed to producing graduates who will positively impact their communities for years to come with quality and accessible healthcare. As we raise our profile nationally, we increase our ability to meet our goals and to positively address healthcare disparities and help those struggling with limited access to healthcare. It is important work that we are doing. From our students to our staff, our faculty, our volunteers and our graduates, we are all having an impact and bringing about positive change.

I congratulate those who were recognized at the ACNM annual meeting and thank everyone at FNU for contributing to our ongoing success. We have much more to do, but we are proud to share within these pages many of the great accomplishments of our students, faculty and staff.

There are also many exciting events coming up in the year ahead, including the annual Virtual Event, Homecoming and, oh yes, a little adventure on the high seas of which you might have already caught wind!

Thank you all for taking the time to learn about these exciting happenings within the FNU community. And thank you for all you do to make us better at what we do.

Frontier.edu Susan Stone, CNM, DNSc, FAAN, FACNM

Susan Stone, CNM, DNSc., FACNM, FAAN Frontier Nursing University • Quarterly Bulletin 1

Feature: Dr. Susan Stone Inducted as President Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, FACNM president of Frontier Nursing University, was inducted as the president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) during the ACNM’s annual meeting in May. ACNM is the professional association that represents certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) in the United States. With roots Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, dating to 1929, ACNM FACNM president of Frontier is the oldest women’s Nursing University health care organization in the United States. The organization’s elected leaders play an important role in guiding the midwifery profession.

“Susan brings expertise and vision to this role, particularly in the areas of Board management and strategic financial development which will serve the members of ACNM very well,” said pastACNM President Lisa Kane Low PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN. “We are fortunate to have her.”

“My priorities as President will be to position midwives as leaders in national discussions regarding maternity care and our healthcare systems, ensure positive collaboration amongst midwives and maternity care providers, and to increase the number and diversity of our midwifery workforce.”

-- Dr. Susan Stone, addressing the ACNM annual meeting

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Stone will maintain her duties as FNU’s president, the position she has held since 2001. During this time, the University has grown from 200 students to the current enrollment of more than 2,000. Stone leads FNU with a goal of improving health care for families through increasing the number of well-prepared nursemidwives and nurse practitioners.

“Our country is facing a maternal health crisis that is garnering national attention,” Stone said during her address at the ACNM annual meeting. “The maternal mortality rate continues to rise as well as the number of cases of severe morbidity. It is abhorrent that this is most evident for women of color, especially for black women, who experience these poor outcomes at 3 to 4 times the rate of white women. These disparities are disgraceful and unacceptable. As midwives, we need to carry the banner of change and become the forceful catalyst of change at all levels.

Our women and families are relying on us.”

“To make the necessary changes, we need to not just be present but leading in all venues where decisions are being made,” Stone continued. “We must be participating in legislative agenda, mortality/morbidity review committees, and planning and constructing the health care systems of the future. Midwives must be central in the decision making process. We are the experts at helping women become healthy and remain healthy. We are the teachers, the care providers, and the advocates who can change this picture. Together, with our present students and future graduates, we can make a difference.”

of American College of Nurse-Midwives FNU AT ACNM 2018 FNU’s impact was clearly evident at the 2018 ACNM Annual Conference. In addition to Dr. Stone becoming the ACNM president, many FNU faculty members and students were honored or delivered presentations during the week-long meeting.

Congratulations to the following FNU Faculty Members who were inducted as ACNM Fellows during the 2018 Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia!

Presentations: Mickey Gillmor, MN, CNM and Katya Simon, CNM: “Listeria Then and Now” Janelle Komorowski, DNP, ARNP, CNM: “Substance Abuse Disorders in Pregnancy” Janelle Komorowski, DNP, ARNP, CNM: Creating Health in Any Zip Code: Defeating Geographical Health Disparities” Janelle Komorowski, DNP, ARNP, CNM: “Integrative Midwifery for the Underserved” Janelle Komorowski, DNP, ARNP, CNM: “Postpartum Cardiomyopathy” Megan Danielson, CNM and Janelle Komorowski, DNP, ARNP, CNM: “Quality Improvement to Promote High-Quality Maternal Care and Physiologic Birth” Victoria Baker, Ph.D., CNM, CPH, Maria Valentin-Welch, CDIO, DNP, MPH, CDP, CNM, FACNM and Essence Williams, MSN and Nursing/Nurse-Midwifery Class 166: “Teaching Students to Care About Cultural Humility and Social Justice: What Does It Take?”

Victoria Baker, Ph.D., CNM, CPH: “Context and Clinical Care: Applying the IOM Report on Social Determinants of Health to Teaching Midwifery” Megan Arbour, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM: “Developing a Technology Enhanced Peripheral Brain for 21st Century Practice”

Pictured left to right, top row: Linda Cole DNP, CNM, CNE; Rebecca Fay DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC, C-EFM; Jane Houston DNP, CNM. Bottom row: Mary Kay Miller CNM, MSN, ARNP, BSN, RN; Charlotte Morris DNP, CNM; Eileen J. B. Thrower, Ph.D., APRN, CNM.

Other honorees:

Megan Arbour, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM: “Clinical Skill Competency and Confidence” Jane Houston, DNP, CNM, Trish Voss, ND/DNP, MSN, CNM, Ally Williams, M.Ed: “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Beyond the World of Pink and Blue in Healthcare and Graduate Education” Jill Alliman, CNM, DNP: “AABC Strong Start: Freestanding Birth Centers Serving Vulnerable Populations” Heather Clarke, DNP: “Chronic Kidney Disease Among African American Women -- Lived Experience and Management Conditions for NPs/CNMs” Eileen Thrower, Ph.D., APRN, CNM: “All My Babies and the Grand Midwives of Georgia: A Presentation and Discussion of Rare Film Images of Birth in the 1940s and 1950s”

Grace Dible, MSN and Nursing/NurseMidwifery Class 166: Received a scholarship to attend the conference.

Mimi (Paulomi) Niles, CNM, MSN, MPH: CarringtonHsia-Nieves MOCC Graduate Fellowship Award

Jill Alliman, CNM, DNP: ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award

Eileen Thrower also led a tour of the Birth Center and Penn Center, home of the Penn School for freed slaves in the 19th century. Katie Moriarty led poster presentations, workshops and leadership sessions. A suturing workshop was conducted by Vicki Burslem, Julie Daniels, Becky Fay, Mickey Gilmor, Jane Houston, Lisa Huckaby, Sarah Smith and Eileen Thrower.

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Feature: Jonas Scholar Editor’s Note: In 2006, philanthropists Barbara and Donald Jonas founded the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, a first-of-its-kind philanthropic program dedicated to advancing the nursing profession. The Jonas Scholars program has had a significant impact on students of Frontier Nursing University. Two members of the 2012-2014 cohort received $30,000 in scholarship support, four members of the 201416 cohort of students received $50,000 in scholarship support, and four more students in the 2016-18 cohort are receiving $70,000 in scholarship awards. That’s a total of $150,000 impacting 10 FNU students.

To honor this tremendous support and our students who have earned these scholarships, we are profiling the FNU alumni who were named Jonas Scholars and the work they are doing now. Here is the second of those profiles.

Erica Burkhart with her daughter, Lumi.

Had things worked out just a bit differently, Erica Burkhart could very well be writing this story. When she left her hometown in Connecticut to attend Antioch College in Ohio, she did so with the intent of becoming a writer or photographer. Little did she know then that her career path would take a dramatic turn.

After graduating, she moved to Chicago and began working as a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood. There she worked with several nurse practitioners and became interested in the profession.

In 2002, she moved to Maine and completed her BSN at the University of Southern Maine and worked as a psychiatric RN in an acute psychiatric unit. But her career in nursing was just beginning.

“A friend of mine told me about FNU and I was intrigued by the history and mission of the school,” Burkhart says. “I completed my MSN and DNP through Frontier while raising my daughter, who is now six.”

Burkhart and her daughter, Lumi, reside in Portland, Maine.

Burkhart and her partner, Cory, have played in bands together for the last decade and have inspired Lumi to want to join them.

Burkhart still loves writing and photography and animals. It’s all part of what she calls “a balanced life.”

In the professional part of that life, Burkhart now works at a primary care clinic as part of Southern Maine Health Care. She sees patients of all ages and says FNU played a significant role in preparing her to treat her patients.

“My experience at FNU was invaluable as the professors have a wealth of knowledge to impart on the students,” Burkhart says.

“I completed my clinical experience in Brunswick and Portland, Maine, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My history working on a psych unit has helped prepare me to treat mental health issues in an outpatient setting.”

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Frontier.edu Alumni Award Nominations

Burkhart continues to grow and learn, expressing particular interest in reproductive healthcare; transgender care; suboxone treatment for opiate use disorder; and herbal and nutritional therapies. In her work with patients with mental health issues, Burkhart is addressing what she sees as a significant need in healthcare.

“A huge gap in services is mental healthcare,” she says. “We do our best in primary care to tackle difficult mental health issues people face, because there are a lack of psychiatrists and psychiatric NPs in the area and there are long wait times to see someone.

For many years, Frontier Nursing University has honored two graduates and a Courier for their outstanding service to the university and their communities. These awards are given at the annual Alumni and Courier Homecoming held at Wendover in Hyden, KY. This year we are excited to announce that we will honor four graduates. We will honor both a nurse-practitioner and a nurse-midwife for each award listed below.

The Distinguished Service to Society Award recognizes an alumnus who goes above and beyond to provide exceptional service in their communities.

The Distinguished Service to Alma Mater Award honors an alumnus who has continued to provide support to Frontier through volunteer efforts and/or donor support.

Previous Award Winners: Year

Service to Society

Service to Alma Mater

“We are also struggling, like much of the population, with drug addiction and limited resources to support and treat those affected. I also suspect our delivery model needs to change to reach more people who don’t have access to transportation or simply don’t know what services are out there. I think home-care should be expanded.”

2017

Jill Alliman

Patty Kandiko

2016

Jan Stalder

Pat Caudle

2015

Kerri Schuiling

Joan Slager

2012

Holly Powell Kennedy

Tracy Ryan

Burkhart is a forward thinker. She wants to see advancements in the profession and help lead change toward better healthcare and greater accessibility. That’s the sort of person who receives a Jonas Scholarship.

2010

Nadene Brunk

Catherine Miller-Shields

“Receiving the Jonas Scholarship and continuing my education was a huge gift and honor – and allowed me to complete my DNP which, I hope, opens doors for me to teach nursing at some point in the future and share my skills and knowledge with students,” Burkhart says.

“The Jonas’ are clearly wonderful, humanitarian people,” she continues. “I would thank them for their gifts that impact not only the students they support but have a ripple effect as those graduates impact the communities in which they live and work in positive ways. I think the impact of their scholarship programs is much bigger than we can ever know.”

Please visit the link on our website to submit your nomination: https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/alumni-awards

Courier Unbridled Service Award Nominations The Courier Program Unbridled Service Award is given annually to a former Courier who has carried the torch of Mary Breckinridge beyond the mountains, perpetuating the mission and spirit of Frontier in their own lives. The criteria for this award includes dedication to serving others; ongoing, longstanding stewardship of Frontier; and demonstration of personal conviction, courage and a zest for adventure.

Previous Unbridled Service Award Winners: 2017

Charlotte Wunderlich

2016

Marian Leibold

2015

Patsy Lawrence

2014

Kate Ireland

Nominations can be submitted at bit.ly/FNUCourier

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Alumni Spotlight “I think it’s important because you need to give back to your community,” she says.

“You need to grow the nurse-midwife and the provider profession. You’ve got to give back so that those students can grow. If you don’t do it, then nobody is going to do it.”

Susan Clapp In the life of Susan Clapp, CNM, precepting is a gift that is both given and received. Clapp was working in labor and delivery after receiving her LPN in 1992. One of her instructors who was a nurse-midwife got Clapp interested in the profession, but between a husband and two babies, Clapp’s dream of being a midwife sat in the wings a little longer.

Clapp enrolled in Frontier Nursing University (FNU) in Class 81 and received her CNM in 2012. During her time as a student, she was the recipient of mentoring by three different preceptors.

“I was so blessed. They were fantastic and they were lovely,” Clapp says of her preceptors.

Now, as a full-scope nurse-midwife for the Department of Defense at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas, Clapp gets to pay that gift forward.

Precepting is not an easy task. Many students are accustomed to being leaders in other settings, so being a novice under the direction of a preceptor can prove a difficult transition for both parties.

It can also be hard for students to find preceptors, and when they do, the hospital may not accept a preceptee or may decide to give first choice to medical residents.

Preceptors also face a challenge, because it adds work to their already full plates.

The extra hours for teaching and demonstrations while precepting can be draining and stressful.

Despite the difficulties that come with precepting, Clapp estimates she has precepted around 20 students since her graduation from FNU six years ago. Her team of nurse-midwives strives to have a preceptee constantly in rotation, so that the students can benefit from being in their practice.

One of her recent preceptees had a triumphant moment during a complicated, emergency case. Though nervous, the preceptee took the lead and Clapp was ecstatic with how she took control of the situation.

“She did so well and it made me incredibly proud,” Clapp says. “We got out of the room and I was squealing like a teenager.”

Moments like these are what Clapp lives for and are the reason she continues precepting.

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Clapp doesn’t stop at precepting in her mission to give back to the midwifery community. She was President of the FNU Alumni Association Advisory Council president for five years and now serves on the council as the Development Committee Chair. She also participates in FNU’s Supporting Achievement in Graduate Education (SAGE) Network and Wide Neighborhoods Ambassador Program. Frontier clearly takes a special place in her life.

“I went [to Frontier] and I found this whole, big community,” Clapp says. “You have to find your people. I went there and found a huge community.”

Clapp is proud that some of her preceptees have begun to precept others and encourages others to start.

“Ninety percent of your job is caring,” she says. “At first you feel so unworthy. You think about your preceptor as this huge mentor, they’re all-knowing, they’re like superheroes. And you think to yourself, ‘I’m not that person.’ But you are that person. You just have to step out there and do it.”

“I went [to Frontier] and I found this whole, big community.”

- Susan Clapp, CNM

Alumni Notes Stacy Hendershott joins BellaNova Women’s Health Lakeland Health announced the addition of Stacy Hendershott, CNM, MSN, Class 127. She sees patients at BellaNova Women’s Health at the Health Park Medical Suites in St. Joseph, Mich., and at Intercare in Benton Harbor.

Hendershott previously practiced at Innovative Women’s Health in Hobart, Ind.

Homecoming 2018 October 5-7

Register today! https://portal.frontier.edu/web/fnu/homecoming

Weekend agenda: Friday, October 5th

3:00 PM Welcome Reception at the Big House, Wendover

5:00 PM Dinner at the Big House, Wendover

7:00 PM Homecoming Awards presentation - Big House, Wendover

Saturday, October 6th

8:00 AM Southern breakfast at the Big House, Wendover

9:00 AM Mary Breckinridge Festival, Hyden Kentucky

Congratulations to FNU Graduate, Kathy Bellomy, CNM. Kathy works for Ko’olau Women’s Healthcare and is credentialed at Kapiolani Medical Center, Castle Medical Center, and Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 20, 2018, she became the first Midwife to deliver at Queen’s, which was founded in 1859.

12:00 PM Lunch served

1:00 - 4:00 PM District Tour

6:00 PM Cookout - Pickin’ Under the Stars, Livery: Join us at the Livery to enjoy a Bluegrass Band, Fire, Smores, and other surprises!

Sunday, October 7th

8:00 AM Breakfast at the Big House, Wendover

10:00 AM Enjoy the Frontier Nursing University gift shop

11:00 AM Formal tour of FNU campus

12:00 PM Light Lunch on Campus

1:00 PM Circle Up & Ring the Bell

2:00 PM Depart for tour of Versailles Campus (Attendees will need to use personal vehicles, transportation will not be provided by FNU)

Kathy Bellom Makes History at Queen’s Medical Center

Renee O’Neill Joins Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center

Cost - $150/person includes lodging for two nights, all activities, and meals

Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center (UGL) in Hancock, Mich., welcomed Renee O’Neill, MSN, Class 106, to their team of OB/GYN providers at UGL’s Hancock Family Health Center.

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Alumni Notes Melissa Lawlor Becomes Integrative Health and Wellness Writer for Magazine Melissa Lawlor, MSN, Class 160, has been asked to contribute to The Organic Hudson Valley Magazine, published out of Billings, N.Y., as a featured integrative health and wellness writer. Her first article appeared this spring.

Jamie Kulick Interview Featured in Online Magazine Jamie Kulick, DNP, CNM, DNP Class 19, was featured in an interview on OnlineFNPprograms. com. Kulick practices in Morgantown, W.Va. You can read the full interview by visiting OnlineFNPprograms.com and entering “Kulick” in the search box.

FNU Alumni Named to DukeJohnson & Johnson Fellows Program The Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program has selected three Frontier Nursing University (FNU) graduates as Advanced Practice Nurse Fellows for the 2018-19 program year.

This one-year fellowship is a leadership development program through the Duke University School of Medicine Division of Community Health. The program provides leadership development opportunities for advanced practice nurses to be better able to meet the

Alumni Cruise & CE Opportunity 2019 Join us on the Carnival Liberty March 24, 2019 for a 4-Night Bahamas Cruise from Port Canaveral with visits to Nassau & Freeport.

We will offer two Pharmacology CE sessions (a total of 4 credit hours) When: March 24 - 28, 2019 Where: Port Canaveral (Orlando), FL to the Bahamas! challenges of the evolving health care environment. After completion of the one-year fellowship, program fellows are enabled to provide more effective and efficient health care services to underserved populations.

FNU alumni selected as fellows for the 2018-2019 program include: Julie Paul, DNP, CNM, FACNM. Paul graduated from FNU’s CNEP (Class 42) and DNP (Class 4). She’s now a student in the PMHNP program class 155 and co-director of a certified nurse-midwife hospitalist program at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass.

Laura Willis, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, CMSRN. Willis completed both her CNFP (Class 88) and DNP (Class 16) at FNU. She now practices at Urbana Family Medicine and Pediatrics through Mercy Health Physicians Group in Urbana, Ohio.

Tamara Rolan, CNM, APRN, MSN. Rolan is a graduate of CNEP (Class 85) at FNU, practicing midwifery at St Luke’s OB-GYN Clinic in Meridian, Md. A total of 45 advanced practice nurses were chosen as 2018-2019 fellows.

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Who: Alumni; Preceptors, Faculty, Staff and Friends To make your reservation, please visit https://mybookinggenie.com/frontiernursing-university-alumni-cruise/ Cost: Rates start at $339 per person (depending on room choice) plus taxes/ fees per person (rates are based on double occupancy, so make sure to reserve with a friend). Price includes meals, accommodations,and entertainment.

Gratuities are charged once onboard.

Optional Vacation Protection and Beverage Packages Available. (Airfare is NOT included.)

A deposit of $150 per person confirms your reservation. (Deposit is fully refundable until final payment which is due in January of 2019)

Master Preceptor Course

by the ACNM as a CE for preceptor training for .2 CE/2 contact hours. This CE credit can also be applied toward FNP and WHNP continuing certification.

If you are interested in receiving CE for this preceptor training, you must register, complete the modules and complete the final evaluation.

Frontier Nursing University (FNU) is continuing to provide training to clinical preceptors with this preceptortraining course, The Master Preceptor.

We are aware and appreciative of the importance of the clinical preceptor to the success of Precepting is a gift. students. Ultimately It is an opportunity this leads to highto share the quality care for many things you patients through the have learned as hands of advanced a provider with practice nurses. future providers Today’s practicing who will reach nurse-midwives and an even wider nurse practitioners population in the have broad world. During responsibilities and the experience work under time Kimberly Bertram, CNP Class 110 student of certified with her preceptor, Laurie Hersey, CNM, at and accountability precepting, Charleston (S.C.) Birth Place. pressures that are many advanced unprecedented. This practitioners find course is offered that they are aff orded the opportunity to as a guide and resource building on the impact many others as they continue to first educational programing, The Gift of grow professionally.

Precepting. If you have not yet completed the modules for The Gift of Precepting To learn more about precepting an FNU you will need to do so before progressing student, please visit: https://portal. on. frontier.edu/web/fnu/preceptor The course is divided into six modules.

The first module is an overview of how FNU certified preceptors may progress to Master Preceptor status.The next four modules are designed to apply to any certified preceptor working with students and can be done as a whole or one module at a time. The final module is a presentation by Dr. Mimi Secor on stress management.

One of the requirements for the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is that all preceptors participate in preceptor training. This course has been approved

Dr. Susan Stone Recognized as “Featured Nurse Leader: The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) recently recognized FNU President Dr. Susan Stone as a “Featured Nurse Leader”. The Academy’s Featured Nurse Leader is featured on the AAN website to showcase the transformative work of AAN’s fellows.

Winter Term at a Glance In these pages, you read about the many successes of our students, faculty and alumni. We are so proud of these stories and eager to see the next line of success stories develop.

Each quarter, we welcome new students aspiring to make a difference in healthcare in their communities.

To give you an idea of FNU’s ongoing impact, here’s a snapshot of the admissions for the 2018 winter term: Total Applicants: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .668 Offered Admission: . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Accepted Admission: . . . . . . . . . 290

Admission by degree path: Certified Family Nurse Practitioner: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Community-Based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program: . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Certified Nurse Midwife Refresher: . . 2 Community-Based Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner: . . . . . . . . . . 5 Doctor of Nursing Practice: . . . . . . .75 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 TOTAL: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Visit the Featured Nurse Leaders page on the AAN website at aannet.org/news/ featured-nurse-leader.

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Notes FNU Gives Back Several members of the FNU staff volunteered at the Kentucky Education Television (KET) Telefund on March 4.

Among the quality programming featured on KET is the popular PBS show “Call the Midwife”.

FNU Hosts “Call the Midwife” Screening Event for Season 7 Premiere For the sixth consecutive year, Frontier Nursing University hosted a free reception and screening event of the hit

PBS show, “Call the Midwife,” Season 7 on March 22, 2018.

FNU Participates in March for Moms

The PBS drama “Call the Midwife” follows the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of the deprived Poplar district of London’s desperately poor East End, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. Season 7 premiered on PBS on March 15, 2018.

Representatives from Frontier Nursing University participated in the March for Moms on Sunday, May 6. The annual event, which occurred in cities across the country, is aimed to motivate society to make a difference in the lives of mothers, babies and birthing families.

Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has been involved with the show since the program’s inception, with a rich history during the early days of midwifery. FNU faculty member Katie Moriarty, PhD, CNM, CAFCI, FACNM, RN is one of four experienced midwives who partner with PBS and Detroit Public Television to discuss their role in modern obstetrics in relation to “Call the Midwife,” which takes place in the 1950s and 1960s. As a “Modern Day Midwives Blogger” for the show’s website, Moriarty contributes valuable knowledge of midwifery as it relates to FNU in regular blog posts.

The Season 7 screening event, held at the Kentucky Educational Television (KET) Studio in Lexington, Ky., included a reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages leading up to the screening. Several dozen “Call the Midwife” fans, FNU supporters, and friends from the community enjoyed getting together and looking forward to another exciting season.

Dr. Susan Stone (left) and Janet Scott at the Call the Midwife reception and screening event.

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Top 25 Women in Higher Education FNU’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Dr. Maria Valentin-Welch, DNP, MPH, APRN, CDP, CNM, FACNM was selected as one of the Top 25 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Magazine. Congratulations on a welldeserved honor, Dr. Valentin-Welch!

Cassie Belzer Joins Panel at Moms Like Me

Featured Preceptor: Jana Sund, CNM

Cassie Belzer, CNM, MSN, served as one of the panelists at Moms Like Me on May 5 at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Bozeman, Mont.

Cassie, who is a faculty member at FNU,

Frontier Nursing University (FNU) preceptor Jana Sund, CNM, from Kalispell Regional Health Care, Kalispell, Mont., was honored as FNU’s “Featured Preceptor” for the winter term. Jana was nominated by recent nurse-midwifery graduate Debbie Miller.

is married with two teenage children.

When she is not catching babies, she enjoys watching her son play hockey and spending time with family and friends.

She has been in practice for six years as a midwife, but her entire nursing career has been dedicated to the health of women and their families. Her doctoral focus was on perinatal anxiety and depression, focusing on improving screening, treatment and followup. She hopes through her work with Roots Family Collaborative she can continue making strides toward keeping perinatal mood disorders in the spotlight and women safe from the consequences.

With a genuine interest in molding new and future CNMs, Jana constantly gives of herself as a teacher, mother, and women’s care provider. In her position at FamilyBorn Maternity and Women’s Health, she takes a holistic, patient-centered approach to care for all of her patients, which include women from the start of menstruation through menopause.

Jana serves as an National Health Service Corps (NHSC) provider as well as cares for women’s with health insurance coverage. She also started a nonprofit community postpartum depression/ mood disorder support group. At its beginning, it served women from her clinic, and since has grown to serve women in the entire Flathead Valley and outlying counties. Jana recently precepted her nominator Debbie, who said she gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from Jana’s practice.

Dr. Susan Stone Speaks as “Agent of Change” at Beyond Flexner Conference FNU President Dr. Susan Stone was invited to present at the 2018 Beyond Flexner Conference in Atlanta in April.

Her presentation “From Midwives on Horseback to Midwives in a Virtual Community: Educating Health Care Providers for Rural America” was part of a featured “Agents of Change” presentation.

The Beyond Flexner Conference is a comprehensive activity for health profession educators, students and residents, clinicians, and community partners committed to a more equitable health care. The conference was hosted

by Morehouse School of Medicine, the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and the Beyond Flexner Alliance.

“She has a giving heart and thrives on caring for others,” said Miller. “Each of her patients leave the office with a sense of security, having been heard and their concerns and fear validated.”

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Courier Corner and Spotlight Breckinridge Capital Advisors Renew Sponsorships for 2018 Courier Program

The Courier Program at Frontier Nursing University is excited to announce that Breckinridge Capital Advisors will once again sponsor the 2018 Courier Program.

Couriers who have been accepted into the program for the summer of 2018 who do not have access to funds from their respective schools may receive funding from the sponsor to cover their Courier Program fee, a gas allowance, and, due to Breckinridge’s increased support, funding to support their community projects they work on throughout the summer.

Breckinridge Capital Advisors is a Boston-based investment firm founded

by Peter Breckinridge Coffin, current Chairman of the Frontier Foundation Board of Directors, and a member of the FNU Leadership Council. Peter has built a successful company that takes social responsibility and philanthropy to heart. Sponsoring the Courier Program is a natural extension of that. We are honored and humbled by the generosity of this fantastic corporation. Thank you, Breckinridge Capital Advisors for your continued support!

Wendy Parker-Wood When Wendy Parker-Wood’s family visited the Big House at the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) grounds, Wendy knew it was a place she wanted to be. The then 12-year-old Wendy was fascinated by the stories her mother told of volunteering as a Christmas secretary at Frontier Nursing Service in the 1930s, and she felt a strong connection to the work the Couriers did there.

In her senior year of high school in 1966, Wendy traveled to Wendover to participate in the Courier Program.

She rode horses, grocery shopped for the cooks, transported sick children to Lexington and Cincinnati, prepared tea time, and acted as a tour guide for visitors.

That first summer, Wendy and her fellow Couriers also took care of animals, assisted at the local clinics, and engaged with the community.

Wendy also assisted at the outpost clinics of Wolf Creek and Beechfork. On one memorable occasion, Wendy was called to observe an appendectomy. Due to not eating beforehand, she passed out, hit her head and woke up hours later after being treated.

In 1967, Wendy returned to Wendover as a Senior Courier.

Among her duties, she taught the new Couriers to drive the manual FNS jeeps. She and the other Couriers named each new jeep that was purchased.

The Couriers had their fair share of fun – once even pranking Wendy with a healthy dose of cow manure – but Wendy also developed a great respect and admiration for FNS. Everyone had a specific job to do within the organization but at the end of the day, they came together to work as a community. Furthermore, Wendy had not seen women running an organization like FNS. It was encouraging to observe successful female management and it inspired Wendy to pursue such goals in her own life.

The culture and people that Wendy encountered in the community had a profound impact on her. She was exposed to a new way to life, and she enjoyed

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talking to the people in the area. Though Wendy loved FNS and the surrounding community, she decided to change directions. After college, she lived in Europe for five years, then began a career in banking and worked for many years on Wall Street.

Throughout her time at Wendover, Wendy grew close with her fellow Couriers and many staff members, found a summer romance, enhanced her skills, and learned a lot about herself.

Above all else, FNS broadened her horizons, for which Wendy will be forever grateful.

“It’s just a special little place that stays right inside my heart,” Wendy says.

In 1928, Mary Breckinridge, founder of Frontier Nursing University established the Courier Program, recruiting young people to work in the Kentucky Mountains and learn about service to humanity. Couriers escorted guests safely through remote terrain, delivered medical supplies to remote outpost clinics, and helped nursemidwives during home visits and births.

Frontier has benefited tremendously from the 1,600 Couriers who have served since 1928.

At the heart of Frontier Nursing University is a talented and diverse community of students, alumni, faculty, staff, Couriers and preceptors. Spotlight blogs feature members of our FNU community that are focused on the mission of educating nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to deliver quality healthcare to underserved and rural populations.

In Memoriam / Tributes Grace Ann Stoltz Grace Ann Stoltz, loving wife and friend passed away after battling cancer for nearly a year at the age of 33 on February 26th, at her home in Belleville, Ill. Grace was born March 22nd, 1984 to Mary and Carl Stoltz of O’Fallon, Ill. She became a nurse in 2014 and worked at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in labor and delivery. Her love of children and dedication to women’s health inspired her to become a midwife, and in 2016 she started working towards a Master’s Degree at Frontier Nursing University. Grace was in her final year of becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife when she was first diagnosed. However, because of her dedication to Midwifery, Frontier Nursing University awarded Grace an Honorary Masters in Nursing Degree, in February of this year. Travel was also one of her greatest passions especially to Belize. Visiting with family numerous times, Belize held a special place in her heart, especially since it is the birthplace of her husband. Even those who only met Grace a few times knew her warmth, sincerity, devotion to God, her fierce love of her friends, and her stubbornness.

She is predeceased by her mother Mary Stoltz.

Grace is survived by her many friends, her husband Darwin Cabb, her father Carl Stoltz, her loving dog Josie, dear friend Gina Krieger, niece Selah Grace, and siblings Loanne Liu, Andrew and Sara.

“It was with great sadness we learned of the news of Grace Stoltz’s passing,” said FNU President Dr. Susan Stone. “Grace was an aspiring midwife in CNEP Class 151. Her compassion and kindness will be truly missed by all of us in her Frontier Community.”

The following people gave contributions to Frontier in memory of their friends or loved ones. The names in bold are the deceased.

The following people gave contributions to Frontier in honor of their friends or loved ones. The names in bold are the honorees.

Barbara Bullitt Watkins-Christian

Betty Brown

Lowry Watkins

Louise Wall Claire Stengel

Jean Fee

Robert Elder

Nancy Roy

Sue Graham

Jane R. Hope

Annie Hurwitz

Jane Tyrrell Barbara Ann Grady Susie Szymanski John Huston Joan Lambert McPhee Ann Warner Anderson Paul and Leslie Dangerfield Mary Douthit Tim and Susanna Lodge Cynthia Monahan Mr. Franklyn Garry and Ms. Marry Adams Beth Monohan Sarah (Sally) Mortimer Beatrice Perrin John Vermeulen and Susan Wood Jane Leigh Powell Robert Phipps

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Wendover Report Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn and Retreat Center Gets a New Look In the last issue of the FNU Quarterly Bulletin, we told you about the partnership with Snug Hollow Hand in Hand Consulting, intended to help revitalize the services, amenities and operations of the Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn and Retreat Center.

The lead consultants, Barbara Napier and Rhonda Childers own and operate Snug Hollow Farm Bed & Breakfast in Irvine,

Ky. Snug Hollow, offering a 300-acre mountain retreat with gourmet dining in the heart of Kentucky, has operated as a highly successful B&B for the past 17 years.

To date, many changes have already been implemented as Wendover adopts a fresh new look. Take a look at a few of these recent pictures and see for yourself !

Garden House Room

Special Knit Items Homemade baby caps, blankets, and scarves continue to be very needed for our FNU Students.

Frontier nurse-midwifery students present a baby cap to the family of a baby whose birth they attend, and our nurse practitioner students present lap quilts or scarves to their patients. As our university continues to grow, we will need more and more of these wonderful items. The size needed for lap quilts is approximately 40 by 42 inches.

Yarn should be worsted weight.

We greatly appreciate the many knitting groups and friends who send items to us. These baby caps, scarves and blankets are circling the globe as our students pass them on to women and families and share the story of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service. It’s such a special way to pass on the vision and mission of Frontier!

Queen Room

Thank you to the following individuals who have recently sent items to Wendover: Beaumont Presbyterian Church Marilyn Daniels Mary Stites Madeleine Samarco Helen Stadmiller Debbie Wilshire

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Question & Answer Q&A with New Wendover Operations Manager Debra Turner Why did you accept the new position with the bed and breakfast?

As a child I attended Christmas plays at Wendover and the nurses were who we went to when we were sick or injured.

FNS is part of my heritage. I would like to see the B&B grow and thrive and become a popular retreat center, a place for people to celebrate events and and a tourist attraction continuing to celebrate the life and mission of Mary Breckinridge and Frontier Nursing Service.

What are your goals for Wendover?

My goal is to provide world-class hospitality to guests while maintaining the integrity of the history.

Debra Turner has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services and worked for the Leslie County Board of Education for 11 years prior to coming to Frontier.

How has it been working with the consultants from Snug Hollow?

The ladies from Snug Hollow are very knowledgeable about the hospitality business and are great to work with.

How long have you been with Frontier Nursing University?

What are some of the most significant changes visitors to Wendover will notice?

11 years in May.

There will be significant changes to the Big House including restoration of the upstairs bedrooms including new, luxurious beds. In the bedrooms and downstairs the furniture will be freshened and arranged so everything will match and clutter will be eliminated. Historical items will be grouped and placed in appropriate areas to better showcase their story. The bedrooms in the Barn & Garden House will be redecorated

Where are you from originally?

I am originally from Hyden. I was a Frontier Nursing Service baby born in the old hospital built by Mary Breckinridge -- the same building that now houses the administrative offices for the University (Morton Gill Building). Both my sons are also FNS babies born at the newer Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden.

and beds will be replaced with new comfortable mattresses and linens. The building that is now the Guard House will be remodeled and redecorated and will serve as the check-in, check-out information hub and my office. The historical displays in the downstairs Barn will be expanded and improved with the addition of items that haven’t been showcased before. The gift shop will have many items added as well. Guests will have a unique, satisfying experience with hospitality that will leave them wanting to come back for more.

What is your favorite thing about your new role?

I’m a visionary, a planner and organizer and love the challenge of improving the processes. It doesn’t hurt that I have a fantastic view of the grounds and the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River from my office window.

Anything else you would like to add?

An important factor in the process is marketing to bring in guests and to keep them coming back. We are currently working on a logo, a new brochure and an active marking plan.

To make a reservation, please contact Wendover Bed & Breakfast Inn and Retreat Center at 859-899-2707 or visit frontier.edu/about-frontier/wendoverbb/.

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Board Trustees of Directors Welcome New FNU Board Member Emma Metcalf, RN, MSN, CPHQ In April, FNU officially welcomed Emma Metcalf, MSN, to its Board of Directors. Metcalf brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge, adding significantly to the board’s capacity to continue to lead FNU’s ongoing mission.

Appointed in July 2013, Emma Metcalf, MSN, is the Director of the Lexington, Ky., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a dual division with four community-based outpatient clinics. She is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the medical center as well as its overall clinical performance. She provides executive leadership, budgetary and operations oversight, and collaborates with other VISN 9 Medical Center Directors in the formulation of budget, policy, and strategic business planning at the network level.

VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System; Chief, Strategic Management Service, VAMC in Louisville, Kentucky where she also held the position of Administrative Officer for Associate Director of Operations; and Compliance Officer at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. She is a strong advocate for Veterans with the belief that the best way to care for Veterans is to ensure they are at the center of everything the VA does.

Metcalf received her Master’s Degree in Nursing in 1985 from Bellarmine College in Louisville, Ky. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing from Jefferson Community College in 1981 and a Baccalaureate of Science in Community Health from the University of Kentucky in 1979.

Metcalf is a Certified Case Manager in the Case Management Society of America and a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality. She is a graduate of Leadership VA (2000); the Executive Career Development Program (2002); Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (2009); and is a Certified VHA Fellow Mentor (2010).

She is also a member of the College of Health Care Executives.

Her progressive VA career includes positions as Director of the VA Illiana Health Care System; Chief Operating Officer, Alvin C. York Campus of the

Frontier Nursing University Board of Directors Front row (l-r): May Wykle, Emma Metcalf, Nancy Hines, Phyllis Leppert, Kitty Ernst, Kerri Schuiling, Nancy Fugate Woods. Back Row (l-r): Peter Schwartz, Michael Carter, Marcus Osborne, Wallace Campbell, Peter Coffin, Della Deerfield. Not pictured: Jean Johnson, Mike Rust.

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Mike Rust Honored at National Philanthropy Day Mike Rust, a member of the Frontier Nursing University Board of Directors since 2000, was recognized for his volunteer efforts and contributions to FNU at the National Philanthropy Day luncheon hosted by the Bluegrass Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

National Philanthropy Day (NPD) is a special day set aside to promote philanthropy and recognize individuals, organizations and businesses that are inspiring change through their significant impact on nonprofit organizations. Mike Rust embodies this level of impact and we thank him for his nearly two decades of service to FNU!

Board of Directors Chair Michael Carter, DNSc, DNP, Tumbling Shoals, AR Vice Chair Michael T. Rust, Louisville, KY Secretary Wallace Campbell, PhD, Berea, KY Treasurer Della Deerfield, CPA, Richmond, KY Board Members Peter Coffin, Chair, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Foundation Chestnut Hill, MA Eunice (Kitty) Ernst, CNM, MPH, Perkiomenville, PA Nancy Hines, Shepherdsville, KY Jean Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Cabin John, MD Phyllis Leppert, RN, CNM, MD, PhD, FACNM, Salt Lake City, UT Emma Metcalf, RN, MSN, CPHQ, Lexington, KY Marcus Osborne, MBA, Bentonville, AR Kerri Schuiling, PhD, CNM, FAAN, FACNM, Marquette, MI Peter A. Schwartz, MD, Wyomissing, PA Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, Seattle, WA

Board Member Spotlight: Phyllis Leppert, CNM, MD, PhD Dr. Phyllis Leppert, CNM, MD, PhD was inspired to join the Frontier Nursing University (FNU) team by FNU legend Kitty Ernst. Six years ago, Phyllis began her stint serving with Kitty on the Frontier Board of Directors.

Kitty was Phyllis’s professor of nurse-midwifery at Columbia before the pair became colleagues while working on their Community-based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program (CNEP) in the 1990s. Finding that they shared a passion to lead improvement in reproductive health and advancement in reproductive science, Phyllis decided to join Kitty as a board member at FNU. As a Professor Emerita Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine and author of over 100 research articles and 32 review articles, Phyllis came highly acclaimed. In 2017, she and two colleagues were awarded a patent for “Treatment method and product for uterine fibroids using purified collagenase” (Patent 9,744,138).

Currently, Phyllis is working with FNU Professor and Course Coordinator Dr. Laura Manns-James to develop an epigenetics course for graduates and advanced practice nurses.

Phyllis also serves FNU by supporting students and sharing about Frontier with colleagues, community members, and friends.

May Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, Cleveland, OH

Her favorite part about serving on the board is meeting students, especially through Diversity Impact weekend.

Board Members Emeritus

Though retired now, Phyllis doesn’t stop there. She serves as President of the Campion Fund, a non-profit that supports basic research in reproduction, and is a member of the Advisory Board for Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, is Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and was given the Distinguished Service Award from ACOG for work on the Committee on the Underserved.

John Foley, Lexington, KY Marion McCartney, CNM, FACNM, Washington, D.C.

Kenneth J. Tuggle, JD, Louisville, KY

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Trustees Trustees: New York Academy of Medicine, honors FNU Trustee Dr. Ruth Watson Lubic, RN, CNM, Ed.D, as the 2018 Urban Health Equity Champion The New York Academy of Medicine announced that Dr. Ruth Watson Lubic, RN, CNM, Ed.D, was honored as the Urban Health Equity Champion at the Annual Gala on June 12, 2018 in New York.

Dr. Ruth Lubic (left) with FNU President Dr. Susan Stone (right)

MacArthur Foundation-recognized Ruth Lubic, a nurse-midwife and FNU Trustee, has had a significant influence on the delivery of maternity care and child health care in the United States.

Lubic has promoted midwives as the primary providers of maternity care (with physician backup) as an effective and less costly alternative to the physician-based care commonly practiced in the United States. Widely used throughout the industrialized world, this model helps place quality services within reach of underserved, low-income populations. An advocate for such innovations as freestanding birthing centers, Lubic is respected for her equal dedication to the quality of care and family empowerment. She has also instituted a program for families in inner-city Washington, D.C. Lubic is the founder and president emeritus of the D.C. Developing Families Center. She was the general director of the Maternity Center Association for 25 years, and, in 1983, she founded its offshoot, the National Association of Childbearing Centers, now the American Association of Birth Centers.

In 1995, she was appointed an expert consultant in the Office of Public Health and Science, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to numerous articles, she is the co-author of Childbearing: A Book of Choices (1987).

Ruth and her husband Bill both serve as Frontier Nursing University Trustees.

FNU Welcomes New Trustees Robert Montague and Judy Myers recently agreed to become Trustees of Frontier Nursing University.

Montague has served on the FNU board of directors for the past three years and is a relative of our founder, Mary Breckinridge.

Judy Myers, PhD, is an associate professor of nursing at Indiana University-Southeast.

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Mrs. Tia Andrew, Hamilton Parish, Bermuda Ms. Sarah Bacon, Brooklyn, NY Mrs. Andrea Begley, Hyden, KY Mrs. Heather Bernard, Hamilton, NY Gov. Steven Beshear, Lexington, KY Mrs. Betty Brown, Louisville, KY Dr. Timothy Bukowski, Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Wallace Campbell, Berea, KY Miss Anna Carey, Hyden, KY Ms. Carlyle Carter, Evanston, IL Mrs. Jean Chapin, Oldwick, NJ Dr. Holly Cheever, Voorheesville, NY Mrs. Lois Cheston, Topsfield, MA Mrs. Julia Breckinridge Davis, Winston-Salem, NC Mrs. John Dete, West Liberty, OH Mrs. Selby Ehrlich, Bedford, NY Mrs. Robert Estill, Raleigh, NC Mrs. Angela Feltner, Hyden, KY Mrs. Noel Smith Fernandez, Pomona, NY Mr. John Grandin, Chestnut Hill, MA Dr. Joyce Fortney Hamberg, Southgate, KY Dr. Horace Henriques, Lyme, NH Mr. & Mrs. John Hodge, Berwyn, PA Mrs. Robin Frentz Isaacs, Lincoln, MA Mrs. Mary Carol Joseph, Mayor, City of Hyden Ms. Deborah M. King, Westport, MA Mrs. Patricia Lawrence, Westwood, MA Mrs. Henry Ledford, Big Creek, KY Mrs. Marian Leibold, Cincinnati, OH Dr. Ruth Lubic, Washington, DC Mr. William Lubic, Washington DC Mrs. Joan Lambert McPhee, Potomac, MD Mr. Robert Montague, JD, Urbanna, VA Mr. Wade Mountz, Louisville, KY Ms. Judy Myers, PhD, RN, New Albany, IN Mrs. Barbara Napier, Hyden, KY Dr. Spencer Noe, Lexington, KY Mrs. Frank O’Brien, Boston, MA Mr. Dean Osborne, Hyden, KY Mrs. Helen Rentch, Midway, KY Mrs. John Richardson, Washington, DC Mrs. Linda Roach, Lexington, KY Mrs. Georgia Rodes, Lexington, KY Mrs. Sandra Schreiber, Louisville, KY Mrs. Sherrie Rice Smith, Franklin, WI Mrs. Austin Smithers, Lyme, NH Mrs. Robert Steck, Arlington, MA Mrs. Mary Clay Stites, Louisville, KY Mr. Richard Sturgill, Paris, KY Ms. Mary Frazier Vaughan, Lexington, KY Mrs. LouAnne Roberts Verrier, Austin, TX Dr. Patience White, Bethesda, MD Mr. Harvie Wilkinson, Lexington, KY

Ways to Give: A Lasting Investment Your investment in Frontier Nursing University is an investment in quality healthcare for all.

There are many ways you can support FNU. Gifts ranging from donations for operations to trust instruments to testamentary gifts each provide much-needed support for our work. Some of the more common methods are: Annual Fund Donation Gifts may be made by check or credit card and can support the general operations of FNU, or be restricted to particular programs. You can use the enclosed remittance envelope or make a gift online at www.frontier.edu/ online-giving.

Charitable Remainder Trusts These gift instruments allow you and/or your loved ones to benefit from monies placed in the trust during your/their lifetime. Upon the death of the named beneficiary, the remaining balance in the trust is transferred to FNU.

Stock Gifts You can donate your appreciated stock directly to FNU. Please call the Office of Development for instructions.

Perpetual Income Trusts These gift instruments allow the income from monies you place in trust to benefit FNU in perpetuity.

The principal of your gift remains intact for the life of the trust, and the income it generates is transferred periodically to FNU.

Life Insurance You can name FNU as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy, or transfer ownership of the policy directly to FNU. Charitable Gift Annuity You can give a one-time gift to FNU in exchange for fixed, recurring payments over the balance of your life. Upon your death, the balance of your original gift is maintained by FNU for its general use.

Testamentary Gifts You may make provision in your will to provide a specific bequest to FNU, or provide for some or all of your remaining estate to be given to FNU upon your death.

Each of these gifts has specific tax implications. Please contact your attorney or financial advisor for further information. For additional information on making a gift to FNU, please call 859-899-2828 or email Denise Barrett, Chief Advancement Officer, at denise.barrett@frontier.edu.

IRA Distributions You can satisfy your required minimum distribution (RMD) while also saving taxes The IRA Charitable Rollover provides you with an opportunity to make a gift during your lifetime from an asset that would be subject to multiple levels of taxation if it remained in your taxable estate.

Among the details to keep in mind: • Your plan provider must issue the donation directly to the charity.

Funds withdrawn and personally sent by you to the charity do not qualify.

• Your donation can be used to satisfy your Minimum Required Distribution (MRD).

• Your gift can be any amount up to $100,000.

• The gift can be excluded from your gross income for federal tax purposes.

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