Glenmede Princeton
Glenmede, an investment and wealth management firm, has appointed Elizabeth Protage Walsh as the regional director of the company’s Princeton office. Walsh is an experienced wealth professional who was hired as Glenmede’s director of business development in 2021. She will continue to oversee the relationship management team as well as the establishment and maintenance of client connections throughout the region.
As a graduate of Princeton University, Walsh is also on the advisory board of the institution’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, which supports “policy-related research in the Department of Economics,” according to the educational entity’s page. Walsh is currently on the Board of Trustees for both the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad.
She was previously the senior vice president and wealth director at Bryn Mawr Trust’s Princeton office, which she helped launch and lead on Hulfish Street in 2017. She also served on the boards of the Princeton Public Library Foundation, Corner House Foundation, and the New Jersey State Museum, as well as the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s asset building and professional advisors committees.
Prior to that, the southern California native worked for PNC Wealth Management and its predecessor firms for about 29 years, with 25 of those being in Princeton; there, she received one of the YWCA Princeton’s annual “Tribute to Women” awards in 2016.
More information: glenmede.com.
Lawrence Rehabilitation
Dr. Priti S. Gujar will be the new medical director of Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows at Lawrence in Lawrenceville, which are two of the nursing facilities on the 40-acre Lawrence healthcare campus at 1 Bishops Drive.
Gujar is a certified medical director affiliated with Capital Health System Hospitals who started her own Lawrenceville-based practice, Geriatric Treatment Resources LLC, in 2009. Gujar’s hiring comes on the heels of the site’s February purchase by Tryko Partners, LLC, from the Diocese of Trenton. Since then, the property has been undergoing a thorough renovation for modernization and programming expansion.
“Dr. Gujar is widely respected in the area for her expertise in geriatric medicine and her warm manner,” says Erin Popelak, the regional director of market development at Marquis Health Consulting Services, the healthcare administrative and consulting services provider that supports the Lawrence campus from its location in Brick. “The teams at Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows are thrilled to have Dr. Gujar play a leadership role as they embark on this new chapter.”
Out of the four senior care options offered onsite, the Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, known formerly as St. Joseph’s, has 120 beds for the “transition from hospital to home,” providing “post-hospital, short-term rehab, and long-term residential care.”
The Meadows at Lawrence, previously known as the Morris Hall Meadows, feature 60 beds for long-term care, such as six residential long-term care cottages that implement the model developed by the Green House Project, according to the press release.
The Green House Model of Nursing Home Care, as described in a 2015 Health Services Research journal article available on the National Library of Medicine website, is part of an industry shift centered on the three key values of a “real home, [a] meaningful life, and empowered staff,” as achieved through community-oriented communities that prioritize the older populations within them.
The campus also houses the Lawrence Rehabilitation Hospital, a medical facility that has been in operation “for more than half a century,” as well as The Terraces at Lawrence, which provides living arrangements in three styles tailored to those in need of assisted living, memory care, and respite care.
“It’s certainly an exciting time to join Lawrence Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and The Meadows at Lawrence,” Dr. Gujar says in a quote. “I look forward to working closely with the clinical teams in providing progressive skilled nursing care to ensure the best possible outcomes for those in our care.”
After graduating from Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai, India, Gujar had her residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and then a fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Directors Association, and the American Geriatric Society, as well as a fellow with the American Professional Wound Care Association.
More information: lawrencerehab.com.
