✨ Introducing: Women of Excellence Business Excellence Honoree: Mary Ann Boccolini, President/CEO, Samaritan! ✨ Mary Ann Boccolini was just in middle school when she realized that people nearing the end of their lives need much more than good medical care. They need comfort, compassion and sometimes a shoulder to cry on – they may even need to hear a good joke. When she was 13, her mom was diagnosed with cancer. This was before hospice care was established, so for the next 2 years, Mary Ann and her family coped with the physical, emotional and spiritual stress of caring for her mom. “My mom died peacefully at home, which gave peace to the rest of my family and, on some level, resonated with me when I was thinking about what I wanted to do as a career,” recalls Mary Ann, who grew up in Maple Shade and has a BSN degree. Specializing in oncology, she worked at several different jobs before landing at Samaritan as director of clinical operations some 25 years ago. At the time, hospice ...