Nancy Murphy

Nancy Turletes Murphy was born and raised in Millbrook, New York. She graduated from Boston College in 1970 with a BS in Nursing and then received her Master of Science Degree in Psychiatric Nursing from the University of California in San Francisco in 1971. After several years of study, work and service in Massachusetts and upstate New York, she returned to Dutchess County in 1980 where she and her husband, Dr. Michael Murphy, a veterinarian in Pleasant Valley, raised their four children. She has a broad background in health care and has held positions as a pediatric nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Sharon Clinic; as a nursing instructor and lecturer at both the University of Massachusetts and SUNY Binghamton; and as manager of a licensed home care agency in New York State. Nancy also taught prepared childbirth classes to expectant parents at Sharon Hospital in Connecticut and in other sites in Poughkeepsie, New York for fifteen years. For the last twenty years, she has served in management and leadership positions in managed health care organizations in the Hudson Valley with expertise in case management, home health care, utilization management and most recently quality performance. Nancy is currently also serving as a Board Member of the Millbrook Arts Group. With her knowledge and background, she brings a sensitivity and high level of expertise and understanding to her work in her community as well as her contribution to the board of the Foundation for Community Health.