Dr. Steve Landers has stepped down as CEO of the Nationwide Alliance for Care at Dwelling. He shall be succeeded by Jennifer Sheets, an skilled dwelling care chief.

Landers served because the Alliance’s inaugural CEO since September 2024. His departure took impact on February 9, the group introduced on Wednesday.

“I’m deeply grateful and proud to have served because the inaugural CEO of the Nationwide Alliance for Care at Dwelling,” Landers mentioned in a press release. “This has been a real spotlight of my lifelong profession in dwelling care, and I sit up for seeing the continued success of the group underneath Jennifer’s management and the board. Advancing dwelling care and hospice needs to be one of many highest public coverage priorities for our nation.”

Landers, a board-certified doctor, beforehand served as president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical College-affiliated senior residing supplier, and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Affiliation (VNA) Well being Group, a nonprofit dwelling well being, hospice and palliative care group.

Sheets, who began her profession as a nurse, will take over on February 17.

The Alliance’s new CEO beforehand served as an government for a number of dwelling well being care organizations, together with Caring Manufacturers Worldwide and Interim HealthCare, Bayada Dwelling Well being Care, Gentiva Well being Companies and Kindred Healthcare. Most not too long ago based and served as CEO of Carezzi, an AI-enabled know-how platform that connects healthcare suppliers with sufferers and caregivers.

“I’m excited to guide the group into its subsequent chapter as we proceed to advocate for the total continuum of care – dwelling well being, dwelling care, palliative care and hospice care – and develop entry for the sufferers, households and purchasers all of us finally serve, wherever they name dwelling,” Sheets mentioned in a press release.

In keeping with the group, Landers will work with Sheets and the Alliance’s board of administrators throughout the transition course of.