Theresa Santoro is a healthcare executive and strategist with decades of experience leading mission-driven organizations across home health, hospice, and community-based care. She serves as President and CEO of RVNAhealth, where she oversees care delivery models designed to balance operational sustainability with compassion and access.
Theresa’s work sits at the intersection of care delivery, organizational leadership, and systems transformation. Throughout her career, she has focused on building structures that allow clinicians to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care while navigating the financial and regulatory realities of healthcare. Her leadership emphasizes interdisciplinary teams, community partnerships, and care models that enable patients to remain safely at home.
At RVNAhealth, Theresa has guided strategic growth while expanding services that reduce unnecessary hospital utilization and improve quality of life for patients and families. She is particularly attuned to the challenges facing today’s healthcare organizations, including workforce pressures, reimbursement constraints, and the growing need for integrated, community-based solutions.
Through her work and public conversations, Theresa brings a systems-level perspective grounded in practical experience. She is deeply interested in how alternative care models—such as direct primary care and home-based services—can inform broader efforts to create more humane, effective, and sustainable healthcare systems.
