The Foulke Way

She is the Licensed Nursing Home Administrator and all health care staff including Nursing, Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists, Nurse Practitioners, Social Workers, Activities and Fitness staff and Pharmacists report to her. She is also the Executive Director of the Medicare Certified Hospice at Foulkeways Agency.

Before coming to Foulkeways she was a consult for 23 years including being the President and Co-Owner of The Whitman Group, a national consulting and management firm. She served as a national expert in the development of the full continuum of programs and services for older adults. The Whitman Group managed and staffed over 30 hospital-based nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation units, and long term care hospitals nationally from 1985 to 2000.

Mary was appointed by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as the nurse representative to serve for 4 years on the Joint Commission of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Long Term Care (LTC) Professional Technical Advisory Committee that served to advise JCAHO on LTC standards of care. She was also appointed by the American Nurses Association the Chairperson of the Task Force to revise the Scope and Standards of Gerontological Nursing Practice and standards.

She has received awards from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HCFA, for serving on the Multistate Nursing Home Case Mix and Quality Demonstration Project, Nurses Clinical Panel that resulted in the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and PPS reimbursement for Medicare Skilled Care and the Advisory Panel on the Development of a Uniform Needs Assessment Instrument for Discharge Planning.

She has authored over 50 professional journal articles, textbook chapters or textbooks on Gerontological Nurse Standards of Care, Skilled Nursing Home Care, Staffing in Nursing Homes, Falls and other Clinical Topics. She has over 350 professional University, Statewide and National presentations regarding Gerontological Nursing, Subacute and Skilled Nursing Care and other related Healthcare Topics.

Mary has a Master’s Degree in Nursing from the first University of Pennsylvania Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Graduate Program and is currently a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. In 2020, Mary was awarded The McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor a national award that recognizes executive-level women who have made significant contributions to the senior living or skilled nursing fields.

After graduating from Jefferson she worked in Medical-Surgical Nursing at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. After several years of hospital work, Kathy became a visiting nurse working for the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia for over 10 years. In 2002, a year after her daughter was born, she decided to go back to the hospital and worked at Temple University Hospital on the Lung Transplant and Ventilator Rehab unit for several years.In 2011, Kathy came back to Foulkeways and worked as a Team Leader RN on Gwynedd House Court East and was a supervisor every other weekend. In 2016, she became the Resident Care/Health Care on Main RN. In 2018 Kathy changed positions and became the Care Coordinator and Hospice Nurse.

She has worked in a variety of settings including an outpatient mental health clinic, case manager for a national insurance company, and as a medical social worker in a hospital setting. Christine has worked in social services at Foulkeways since 2011.

In her free time, she enjoys running and spending time with her husband and 2 children.

Currently, as the Wellness Dietitian, she works with the culinary, healthcare, and fitness teams to provide healthy meal selections, nutrition counseling, and group nutrition support.  Kelly resides in Hatfield, PA with her husband, Chris, and her 4 children.

She lost that fight when she was 16, but her nurses made a huge impression on her. Second, her sister, Pat, was a nurse and she wanted to be just like her.

Donna took a roundabout way to become a nurse. She graduated from high school in 1980, worked as a nurse’s aide, then was a laborer at Flambeau Paper Corporation for a couple of years until joining the Air Force in 1983. After Basic Training and tech school, she was sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. She married in 1987 and had their first son in 1993. She graduated from nursing school in 1994 and had their second son in 1996.

She was a stay at home mom for five years before going back to work at various nursing jobs before finding Foulkeways. During her time at Foulkeways, she has worked as a team leader, care coordinator, hospice nurse, and residential nurse.

Maryann worked as a Claims Examiner for Prudential Insurance Company while attending Montgomery County Community College for her Nursing degree she worked for North Penn Hospital on the Med-Surgical-Telemetry unit for several years. She has held many positions at Foulkeways including Nursing Assistant, Charge Nurse in Gwynedd and Abington House along with Resident Care/HCOM, Hospice RN and  Supervisor on weekends and holidays.Maryann is married with 4 children and two wonderful grandchildren.  Maryann loves spending time with her family and traveling to Ireland and anywhere there is a beach!

She has additional experience in child welfare. Bev is married and lives in Upper Gwynedd. They have two sons.

Foulkeways is a perfect fit for Bev due to her love of people, nature, art and fitness.

In addition, she has studied and completed course work in Social Gerontology, Sports Management, and Nutrition.

Carolyn is an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Exercise Physiologist and a Fall Proof™ Certified Balance and Mobility Specialist. She has worked in the field of health and fitness at Foulkeways for over 25 years. After years of experience in the health and fitness industry in various roles and positions, it was her passion to work with the older adult population that ultimately led her to her career as Fitness Director at Foulkeways at Gwynedd.

She sings gospel professionally with her 2 sisters and loves playing tennis.

Albert Einstein Medical Center, Moss Rehab and Magee Rehab with a primary focus on functional neurology and cognition. Additional diverse areas of practice include home care, orthopedics, and pediatrics.

Amy was raised in Glenside Pa and continues to raise her family there including three girls. Amy and her family are active in Abington Friends School and are members of the Abington Monthly Meeting. Amy is an avid gardener, enjoys kayaking and time with her dog, cats, guinea pig and chickens.

She then received her Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) in Adult and Gerontology Health.  She has worked in a variety of practice settings including internal medicine, community health with a focus on urban primary care, sub-acute rehab, and geriatric health.  She has worked at Foulkeways since October 2017.She enjoys hiking, snorkeling, cooking, kayaking, skiing, reading and most of all spending time with her family and pets.

Personally, he enjoys coaching basketball, playing golf and cheering on his Alma Mater-the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He has 2 young sons in a local elementary school and spends most weekends chasing them around.

Pam worked in Philadelphia as a staff nurse and then decided to become a nurse practitioner and went to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania.

She graduated from Penn in 1989. Pam has worked at Jefferson in the Internal and Family Medicine departments; Abington Medical Specialists, a cardiology group and at various assisted living facilities in the Annapolis Maryland area.

Pam started at Foulkeways in December 2018 and loves it!