sentences:  In 1989/1990, as a joint effort of the Frontier Nursing Service, Case Western Reserve University, the Maternity Center Association, and the National Association of Childbearing Centers, the Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program was born.Hence, Frontier became the first graduate school of nurse-midwifery to offer distance education.In 2005, the Community-Based Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner option was added.