A nurse and health care advocate, Marilyn Sweeney RN, BSN, MHA (1940-2018) worked tirelessly to improve health care for everyone, with a special concern for veterans and the homebound.
She began her nursing career at Holy Redeemer Hospital and other facilities in the greater Philadelphia area before being named Vice President of Operations at Graduate Health System.
In 1997 she was recruited as director of Bayada Home Health Care, Atlantic and Cape May Counties. In that same year she was appointed by the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders to the Atlantic/Cape May Workforce Investment Board (WIB). For several years she was actively involved in IIB’s Nurse Work Forces Solution Project, funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Grant, to address the nursing shortage.
For eight years Sweeney served on the Advisory Board of the Cape May County Health Department and as an executive committee member of HIV Care Consortium of Jersey Cape Rotary Club, a trustee of Volunteers in Medicine of Cape May County (VIM) and a trustee of the Cape Women’s Resource Fund.
The Cape Women’s Resource Fund recognized her at their 23rd Annual Women’s Equality Day Tea on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at Our Lady of Angels Social Hall in Cape May Court House NJ to celebrate the 94th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.