Renee Amoore

Renee Amoore R.N. (January 24, 1953 – May 5, 2020) was an American health care advocate and the founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.

Biography Amoore was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Juanita Ramsey, a domestic worker and nurse, and John Ramsey, a school bus driver. She was one of eight girls in a working-class family.

She attended the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing in New York City and became the head emergency room nurse at Harlem Hospital. In 1979, Amoore earned a bachelor's degree at Antioch College while working as an evening and night program coordinator at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.

In 1988, an organization named Growth Horizons, which runs group homes for people with mental illness and substance abuse problems, hired Amoore. In 1996, she became the company's vice president and chief operating officer.

Amoore taught as an adjunct professor at Drexel University, Antioch University, and Lincoln University. Amoore, who was African-American, was a member of the NAACP, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the advisory board of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She served as a deacon at Saints Memorial Baptist Church and a guest host on a WHAT-AM community talk show.

Amoore died on May 5, 2020, at the age of 67.