Jane Carmody, DNP, MBA, RN, FAAN

Jane Carmody, DNP, MBA, RN, FAAN

Senior Program Officer

Jane Carmody, DNP, MBA, RN, FAAN, is a Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, a national private foundation dedicated to improving the care of older adults. As Senior Program Officer, Dr. Carmody works with Foundation leadership and staff to guide and support grant-funded initiatives in the United States in three priority areas: Age-Friendly Health Systems, Family Caregiving, and Serious Illness and End of Life. Her portfolio of grants include programs to create age-friendly public health systems, strengthen community-based services for older adults, disseminate dementia care programs and resources, and further develop and promote standards and best practices in emergency, surgical, and home-based hospital care of older adults.

Dr. Carmody has held significant leadership positions with health care systems prior to joining the Foundation, including executive director of a large regional health system’s home health care and hospice services, hospital chief nursing officer (CNO), system CNO for a health care system and chief clinical leader for a large national home health care and hospice company. She has a doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) from Rush University, an MBA from Creighton University, a social work degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a diploma in nursing from Mercy College in Des Moines. She has national certification in executive nursing practice (CENP) from the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL), board certification in nurse executive-advanced from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Dr. Carmody was selected to the ANCC Commission on Pathway to Excellence in 2022 and represents the interests of long-term care settings.

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