Marie Welsh, MSN, BSN, RN Joins Samaritan Palliative Medical Partners

Marie Welsh MSN, BSN, RN of Riverton, NJ has joined Samaritan Palliative Medical Partners, a physician medical practice of Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. Unlike the not-for-profit organization’s hospice program which offers comfort care and quality-of-life-support in the last months of life, Samaritan’s palliative practice provides consultations and follow-up care by board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners concurrently with aggressive treatment throughout the course of serious illness.

Prior to joining Samaritan, Welsh served as ICU nurse and lead preceptor at Virtua Marlton and an Emergency Room nurse at Virtua Voorhees and Hahnemann University Hospital. Her experience also includes critical care nursing at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Shore Memorial, and Vail Valley Medical Center; case management at Jefferson Home Care, and primary care delivery as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a private family medical practice.

Welsh obtained her Diploma of Nursing at Episcopal Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia, She earned her BSN and an MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.

About Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, independent organization accredited by The Joint Commission, a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), and NHPCO’s We Honor Veterans program, created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Samaritan is the regional leader for hospice care, palliative (comfort) medicine, grief support and counseling, and end-of-life education and advocacy. Samaritan serves people in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties who are coping with the stresses of aging, serious illness or grief. For more information, visit www.SamaritanNJ.org .