Marge Ebeling, RN, DCh, PhD has dedicated her life to helping those in need. In 1999, She started The WellCare Foundation to help provide the most basic need of quality healthcare to single, working mothers and their children who are not reliant on state assistance and cannot afford health insurance. Having studied both nursing and religious studies, Marge uses her education to provide patients with whole-person care to help them heal physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Throughout her career, Marge has accumulated many honors, all of which illustrate the enormous impact she has had on the lives around her. In 2005, she was awarded a Healthcare Heroes Award by the Phoenix Business Journal, the Woman of the Year, Jewell McFarland Award from KTVK Channel 3 and the Victoria Lund Community Service Award. Not long before that, she was a finalist for the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce's Athena Award, and she was honored with a World Award in the category of Women of Achievement from the Phoenix chapter of the Cactus-Pine Girl Scouts. Marge also was appointed to serve on the Governor's Commission on the Health Status of Women and Families.

A graduate of Arizona State University, Sacramento College and Romano Byzantine College with degrees in nursing and religious studies, Marge consulted for a hospice agency on spiritual care and integrative therapies and has facilitated a hospice staff support group. She has worked as a nurse specialist in critical care, home health, hospice and psychiatric nursing and was the first nurse in Arizona to open a private practice in integrated health care. She also was the first nurse-chaplain to represent Good Samaritan Medical Center's Pastoral Care Department. As the community chaplain and educator,
she taught and presented integrated medicine in both
Arizona and California.

Marge taught integrative health care at Glendale Community
College, Phoenix College and Nurse Ministries Network.
She has presented to the following institutions: The Mayo
Clinic, Arizona State University, National Association of
Women Business Owners, Samaritan Health System
Hospitals, the AZ Prenatal Conference, American Cancer
Society, Phoenix Children's Hospital, IHH Hospice, Lutheran
Healthcare, NHPA Conference, and the University of Arizona
addressing community wellness and health education.