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Why Choose Us

To Get Help

Choosing Samaritan is choosing comfort, support, dignity, and help.

Samaritan provides support through a team of experts including a physician, nurse, social worker, certified home health aide, spiritual support counselor, bereavement counselor, and a volunteer. This team answers your questions, offers counsel, helps with advance directives, provides pain and symptom relief, gives warm bed baths, and much more.

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To get help or to speak to a representative about why Samaritan may be the right choice for you or your loved one.

Samaritan is the extra layer of support you need to get through this difficult time.

“As soon as your team came with equipment, guidance, and supplies, a huge weight was lifted off all of us.” 
~ EM
 

The Best Choice for Hospice & Palliative Care in South Jersey

According to Consumer Reports, there are key criteria in choosing a hospice.

  1. Not-for-profit status.
    Samaritan is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, independent, community-based organization.
  2. Twenty or more years of experience.
    Founded in 1980. Read more about our history below.
  3. Hospice-certified nurses and doctors on staff and available 24/7.
    Samaritan nurses and doctors are certified in hospice and palliative care. We have a dedicated on-call staff.
  4. Palliative care consultants.
    Palliative Medical Partners medical-specialty practice.
  5. An inpatient unit.
    The Samaritan Centers at Mount Holly and Voorhees

Read more about what questions you should ask when choosing a hospice >>

Samaritan’s Care Pathways

Primary Care

Helping You Stay at Home 

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Palliative Medicine

Pain and Symptom Relief

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Hospice Care

Comfort, Support & Dignity 

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A Rich History, Above-and-Beyond Programs & Services

Samaritan, founded in 1980 by grassroots volunteers, is South Jersey’s first – and largest – hospice organization. Forty years ago in a house in Moorestown, NJ, a half dozen dedicated humanitarians convened with passion in their hearts and a hefty goal to bring comfort at the end of life to all the members of this community. At the time Samaritan cared for 10 patients a day in Burlington County, and in the following years began to grow in service area and number of community members served.
Read about Samaritan’s first executive director >>

Samaritan’s headquarters eventually moved to Mount Laurel and its services expanded to include the Samaritan Center for Grief Support and Transitions  program. Samaritan also extended its service area to Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties.

The organization then added complementary therapies as an integral part of its hospice care program, a specialized program for veterans, an initiative to engage in conversations about your healthcare wishes, a palliative medicine specialty practice, and two inpatient hospice centers (Mount Holly and Voorhees) to better serve the patients and families in our community.

In 2020, the organization moved it’s home base to Mount Laurel and further expanded its services to include primary care at home. Samaritan’s original benefactors would be proud! In fact, they’re part of Samaritan’s future as many still support the organization today through donations and volunteer service.

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Community Impact

Samaritan cares for the community and the world by offering education, support, and additional resources through the following initiatives.

Samaritan cares for more than 11,000 families each year. The not-for-profit reinvests in the South Jersey community by providing close to $1 million annually in non-reimbursed care thanks to the generosity of its donors.

  • Samaritan connects globally by partnering with Kawempe Home Care a community-based organization in Kampala, Uganda, to provide education, support, and resources.
  • Samaritan is committed to education and offers a wide range of engaging topics for community, professional and student groups through its speaker’s bureau.
  • Samaritan is also dedicated to enhancing inclusion, diversity, and access through staff and volunteer education, community outreach, and providing culturally sensitive care to those we serve. Read more about Samaritan’s Community Impact >>

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National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation
Samaritan is a proud not-for-profit member of NPHI.  NPHI members are patient, family, and community-focused hospice, palliative care, and advanced illness providers across the country made up of like-minded leaders with expertise and passion for the mission of the highest quality, person and family-centered, mission-oriented end-of-life care.

 Learn more about NPHI >> or (844) GET-NPHI(438-6744).

Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)

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Words From Our Families

Notes from those we’ve cared for. 

Tracy, our nurse, and Christine, social worker, came to our house to support my mother and family following my father’s passing. I am writing through tears because of the GREAT GRATITUDE we have for them. They have championed us through TOUGH times with my father who recently passed away. My mother and I honestly do not know what we would have done without them. My father changed for the better (emotionally and spiritually) with their support and work. My mother in particular benefited, maybe even more than my dad, from their care. I as a physician greatly appreciated their constant communication, and I had my FULL TRUST in them. What I most appreciate is my parents didn’t feel alone. I am forever grateful.
– John H.
Samaritan came into our lives during a time of crisis for our family. Our son, age 3, had brain cancer again. Samaritan provides such a vital service, and one doesn’t truly appreciate and understand it until you walk down that path.
Daniel and Natali S.
I write on behalf of our family to express our sincere gratitude and deep respect to the staff at Samaritan. It was a very difficult time for me to watch my wife being consumed by a terrible disease. It was even a more difficult time for our adult children as they experienced the worst moment of their lives seeing their mother slowly fade from this life. The Samaritan staff made all of this so much easier and less painful than it could have been. Nurse Teri was always cheerful and kept us well informed and, although the information was not easy to hear, we were at least able to understand what was happening. Nurse Kim also helped us. When she laughed, which was often, Dana laughed. We appreciated those moments.
– Vincent T.
Thank you would never be enough for all you have done for our Bette and our family. Thanks for giving us the priceless gift of being able to spend our time with her and hold her hand as she left our party for a better one in heaven.
Bob R.
Samaritan’s Center for Grief Support has played an integral role in helping our family cope with our loss. Grief can be paralyzing, preventing you not only from enjoying life, but really living it. Toni, Samaritan’s unsung hero, is here to drag you along, kicking and screaming, on the journey back to your own life. After 3 months, I sense a light at the end of the tunnel from the torch that Toni and Samaritan hold high to light the path of recovery.
Carl B.
“Every conversation is a reminder of how powerful kindness can be.”
— Volunteer Participant

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