PLAINFIELD, N.J., April 29,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The
Inner Circle, Mary J. Aloia-Dombrowski is acknowledged as a
Pinnacle Professional Lifetime Member for her contributions to
Hospice Social Work.
Ms. Aloia-Dombrowski is a highly respected hospice social worker
currently working at Hackensack Meridian Health Hospice. She is
known for her expertise in End-of-Life Support and System
Management and notes that she provides education, and support for
people who are terminally ill. She also works with the families of
the terminally ill, helping them understand the dying process,
end-of-life nutrition norms, and code status facts.
Ms. Aloia-Dombrowski prepared for her illustrious career at
Stockton University where she
received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work in 1986 and a Master's
degree in Social Work from Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey in
1988. With more than 35 years in the healthcare field, Ms.
Aloia-Dombrowski was an Oncology Social Worker for 20 years at
Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center and has spent the last 15 years
in the hospice field, working first at the JFK Hospital Palliative
Care Program then transitioning to Hackensack Meridian Health
Hospice doing intake and general in-patient level of hospice care.
She serves the areas of Middlesex,
Somerset, and Union Counties in New Jersey.
The healthcare provider has made a significant impact during her
career and has been recognized with many accolades and awards,
including Social Worker of the Year from The American Cancer
Society, Union County Unit 1997; Union County Rotary Club Social
Worker of the Year in 1996; Employee of the Month in 2010 for JFK
Medical Center; and Health Care Hero in 2022 at Hackensack Meridian
Health Network. She is affiliated with the National Association of
Social Workers and received a certificate of Gerontology in 1986.
She believes a most significant career accomplishment was when she
was appointed the Interim Oncology Program Coordinator at MRMC in
2004.
Reflecting on her education and career, Ms. Aloia-Dombrowski
acknowledges her mentors for her success who include Nancy Lukas
LCSW (Social Work Manager for Hospice), Dr. Charles Leff (Oncologist), Dr. Daniel Rosenblatt (Critical Care Intensivist),
and St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, France. She enjoys reading the Journal of
Social Work, Clinical Social Work Journal, and American Journal of
Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Looking to the future, the social
worker plans to continue her role as a hospice intake social worker
and would like to participate in more community education programs
around hospice and palliative care as well as educating the general
public on the benefits of having a POLST Form when you are 75 years
of age and older. Her extraordinary career can be attributed to
following her philosophy that "It is as important how you leave
this world as when you entered this world. Try to leave it better
than how you found it. The most important days of your life are the
day you were born and the day you figure out why."
Aside from her professional and community pursuits, Ms.
Aloia-Dombrowski enjoys biking with her friends every weekend,
hiking, golf, and volunteering for "Home for Good" dog adoption
program. Her favorite place to travel is "anywhere that I haven't
been yet. Since working for Hospice, the patients have taught me to
begin working on my bucket list while young and healthy. I've been
working on it for the past five years. The next Viking River Cruise
I would like to do is down the Nile River in Egypt." The healthcare provider has two adult
daughters, Tara and Lea; three very supportive siblings, Paul,
John, and Kathleen; and Aunt Maureen, who has become her surrogate
mother since the death of her parents.
Contact: Katherine Green,
516-825-5634, editorialteam@continentalwhoswho.com
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