Nancy Dougherty, a retired managing director of patient financial services at Penn Medicine, died at home of lung cancer on May 18. She was 58 years old.

Ms. Dougherty graduated from John Bartram High School in Philadelphia. She worked in accounts payable at the Southwest Globe Times, a community newspaper in Philadelphia, before coming to Penn in 1980. She worked in financial counseling at Penn Medicine for 34 years, helping patients with insurance and facilitating admission to the hospital.

She joined the board of the University of Pennsylvania Federal Credit Union in 2011 and continued her service until the time of her death.

Ms. Dougherty retired from Penn in 2014 and moved from Clementon, New Jersey, to North Wildwood, New Jersey.

In May of 2015, she was diagnosed with lung cancer, according to her sister, Kathleen Dougherty, a managing director of patient accounting at Penn Medicine.

In addition to her sister, Kathleen, Ms. Dougherty is survived by another sister, Tricia Ware, a director of information technology at Penn Medicine; her mother, Rita; three brothers; one brother-in-law; nieces and nephews; and Scott Nolan.

Donations in her memory may be sent to Lockbox 1352, P.O. Box 8500, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19178-1352.

Condolences may be offered to the family at http://www.egizifuneral.com