Jessica Henman, a Class 56 graduate, plans to open the Birth and Wellness Center this summer in O’Fallon, Missouri. Jessica is opening the birth center with her business partner, Genevieve Calkins, who will serve as the business manager for the practice. A large community survey, conducted as part of Jessica’s Community Assessment assignment at Frontier, was performed in 2008 and revealed overwhelming support for and interest in opening a birth center in the area. Many families are anxiously awaiting the type of care they expect to receive from the birth center.
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Katie Isaac, ARNP, CNM, is a 1980 graduate of Frontier.  Katie has practiced as a nurse-midwife for 30 years and has worked with Women’s Care of the Bluegrass (WCOTB) in Frankfort, Kentucky, since 1997. She was with Women’s Care of Eastern Kentucky from 1993 to 1997. She served as a clinical coordinator for FSMFN for three years during her time in Eastern Kentucky. She also served as a liason for Kentucky River district health departments in 1991 and 1992.  Women’s Care of the Bluegrass provides comprehensive obstetrical and gynecologic care to women from adolescence to menopause.  In her role at WCOTB, Katie provides care to women in Central Kentucky including hospital births and home births. She also serves a large Mennonite population.  Katie attends over 300 births each year as well as over 2500 well and preventive visits.
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Amanda Perkins, CNEP class 63 recently wrote an article for MIDIRS.
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Damara Jenkins, CNEP class 48, is featured in the Winter edition of Pulse Magazine.
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Our time at Hospitalito was spent in the clinics seeing patients, in the small emergency room, and being available for labor and births. Heather attended a few births, Betty evaluated patients in the ED, and we saw clinic patients with pregnancy, diabetes, parasites, gastritis, childhood diarrhea, and a phenomenon specific to developing countries: COPD in women at a young age.

We met a young doctor from the states who has been coming to this community since his medical school days, and has started a small nonprofit organization to address the COPD issues by replacing kitchen fires with stoves. Most women spend 2-4 hours every morning and again every afternoon working over a wood fire on the floors Read the rest…

During our three week stay in the southern highlands of Guatemala in the town of Santiago Atitlan, Betty, Kathryn, and I spent many hours at a tiny hospital on the lake with a big history and an even bigger future.

The village of Santiago is home to 43,000 Tz’utujil residents, one of the largest Mayan indigenous communities in Central America. Despite the size of the community, there has historically been an absence of emergency, obstetrical, and surgical medical care, with the nearest emergency care center being nearly two hours away. Hospitalito Atitlan was opened in Read the rest…