The Affordable Care Act: Impact on Case Managers

Marilyn Phillips¹, Virginia Fitzsimons

• ¹Marilyn Phillips, RN, MSN, is presently employed at Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey. She is a Case Manager for a Post Coronary Care Unit, where she has worked for the past 8 years. Marilyn received her BSN from Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and recently graduated with her MSN in Clinical Management from Kean University. Virginia Fitzsimons, RNC, EdD, FAAN, is the PhD Program Coordinator at Kean University in Toms River, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Teachers' College, Columbia University and Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1981, she was a founding member of the Kean University School of Nursing BSN program, established the MSN program in 1996, and the PhD program in 2014. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing and a Fulbright Scholar.