ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—Steve Landers has stepped down as CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home, the organization announced Wednesday.
Jennifer Sheets, founder and CEO of the health care platform Carezzi, will take over the role Feb. 17, Alliance Board Chair Ken Albert told Alliance members in an email. Landers, who in August of 2024 was named to lead the new organization formed by a unification of the National Association for Homecare and Hospice and the National Palliative Care Organization, left the position Feb. 9 but will remain on in a full-time advisory capacity through May 10, Albert said.
No explanation was provided for Landers’ departure but Albert thanked him for building a strong foundation for the Alliance. He credited Landers, a doctor, with leading the organization through a transformational period, building a strong leadership structure, launching new events and working with the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and the Research Institute for Home Care.
“As a heart-driven physician who started his career providing care in the home to patients and families, he has been the essential leader we needed to unite our community and build a powerful movement with one strong voice,” Albert, who heads Andwell Health Partners, said in his email.
He said that under Landers’ leadership, the Alliance shaped the national conversation about in-home care’s value to health care and pushed back against a proposed 9% payment decrease for Medicare providers.
“Advancing homecare and hospice should be amongst the highest public policy priorities for our country,” Landers said in the email. “I am deeply grateful and proud to have served as the inaugural CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home and am eager to see all the great work I know is to come in the next chapter.”
Sheets to Take Over
Before launching Carezzi in 2024, Sheets was president and CEO at Interim Healthcare and at its parent company, Caring Brands International. She has served on the Alliance board, and while at Interim she recorded growth in revenue and earnings over three years, expanded hospice services and grew the company’s international footprint.
She began her career as an intensive care nurse and has filled roles as hospital system president and CEO, and multiple executive leadership roles in home health care and hospice, including at BAYADA Home Healthcare and Gentiva Health Services.
Her “professional journey reflects a consistent commitment to innovation, quality excellence and operational performance, informed by her early experience at the bedside,” Albert wrote.
“She also brings a deep knowledge of the Alliance’s strategic direction and a clear vision for building on our momentum and advancing our shared mission and experience in national regulatory and health care advocacy,” he added.