A recognized leader and innovator in home health, primary care and aging services, Dr. Steven “Steve” Landers brings almost two decades of experience as a physician, executive leader and public health policy advocate to lead The Alliance as its first Chief Executive Officer.
As a board-certified physician in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine, Dr. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based solutions for ill and aging Americans. He is a champion of the impactful role home care and hospice play in the health and lives of communities, acknowledging that as an aging nation, providing compassionate, dignified and cost-effective systems of care to patients is critical.
Dr. Landers graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where his training included a family medicine residency at Case Western and a geriatric medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. He also attended the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he focused on health policy and management. He received a bachelor of arts in political science from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Early in his career, Dr. Landers based his clinical practice on providing health care through house calls and has made thousands of home visits, primarily to low-mobility patients. While in this setting, he saw the need to better connect home care and hospice to the broader health care system and medical community. He understood that to improve patient care, he would need to understand and play a leading role at the intersection of clinical work, health policy and systems of care. He pursued a master’s degree in public health, which contributed to his passion for influencing federal and state policy to improve health care delivery to vulnerable patients.
Dr. Landers has served on numerous boards and committees in the home-based care policy space, including past appointments to the boards of directors of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, American Academy of Home Care Medicine, the Partnership for Quality Home Health, and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (now Research Institute for Home Care). He has represented these organizations by engaging policymakers, including meeting with members of Congress; providing committee testimonies for Congress and state legislatures; and discussing home care policies and regulations with the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission officials, and federal agency staff.
Prior to joining The Alliance, Dr. Landers served in several executive leadership roles. He was the director of home care at the Cleveland Clinic, and for more than 11 years was the president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc. — one of the oldest, largest and highly respected home health, hospice and community health organizations in the country.
As a renowned author and thought leader in the care at home sector, his work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Huffington Post. The work of Dr. Landers and his team to prioritize at-home vaccines for homebound seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic also has been featured by major news outlets such as ABC’S Good Morning America and CBS Mornings with Gayle King.
Steve lives in Little Silver, New Jersey, with his wife, Allison, and their three sons. His hobbies include golfing, fishing, hiking, traveling, enjoying good food and watching horse racing. When he is not taking part in these activities, you can find him cheering on his sports teams — the Browns, Cavaliers, Guardians and Indiana Hoosiers.
Press Release – Steve Landers, MD, MPH, Named Inaugural Chief Executive Officer of NAHC-NHPCO Alliance