Alicia graduated from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1997. After working in acute care for two years, she took a side job working in home health for extra money. After caring for patients on the home health side, she quickly appreciated the significant challenges patients face when leaving the hospital. In 2002, she committed to home health full time and joined IntegraCare Home Health as Clinical Supervisor. Over the course of her tenure with IntegraCare, she was promoted to various leadership positions with increasing levels of responsibility. IntegraCare expanded through private equity funding and was eventually sold to Kindred in 2012. Alicia was charged with the development of the Kindred DFW Integrated Market after the Kindred acquisition. She concluded her career at IntegraCare in 2014 as Area Vice President of Operations, overseeing 20 home health and hospice locations. Later that year, Alicia became Director of Home & Community Based Services at Cantex Continuing Care Network (CCCN), where she was responsible for all operational, clinical, billing, and sales aspects of the division. During her four-year tenure at CCCN, the network grew through de novo and acquisition opportunities from 3 sites to 12 sites, 8 home health, and 4 hospices. Alicia also developed a patient transition platform within the skilled nursing facility continuum, cardiac wellness and palliative care programs, and improved patient outcomes to a 5-Star rating with the achievement of HomeCare Elite status. In November 2019, she became CEO at Excelin Home Health a multi-site home health, hospice, and private duty company with operations in Texas and California.