2019 Financial Management Conference

James (Jamie) Summerfelt
President-Elect
Nebraska Home Care Association


James Summerfelt is in his 15th year as President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association. He moved here from Reno, Nevada in June 2004, where he was Vice President of Professional and Support Services for Saint Mary’s Medical Center. Jamie grew up in the Chicago area and received his Bachelor’s degree in Education from Northwestern University where he also played Big Ten football. He then went on to graduate school and received a Master of Science in Physical Therapy and Master of Arts in Education from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Moving back to Chicago, he established his own physical therapy business that he eventually merged with a national healthcare provider and proceeded to establish homecare businesses in nine different states. His passion for home care has brought him to Omaha and the VNA that he feels is his dream position. The VNA offers him the opportunity to lead a non-profit, freestanding, mission driven, community healthcare organization in a community that has a 122-year history of supporting the VNA services.

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