---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-025425"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADUS"
cik: "0001468328"
company_name: "Addus HomeCare Corp"
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T17:24:33.764516+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Addus HomeCare appoints Heather Dixon as President and COO, succeeding Bickham

## Summary
- Heather Dixon appointed President and COO effective Sept 15, 2025; succeeds W. Bradley Bickham who transitions to advisor until March 2026 retirement.
- Dixon most recently CFO of Acadia Healthcare; previously CFO of Everside Health, CAO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, CAO of Aetna.
- Dixon resigns from Addus board; compensation includes $650k salary, 90% target bonus, $1.5M signing bonus, $3.1M restricted stock vesting over 3 years.
- Bickham will serve as advisor to CEO from Sept 15, 2025 until his previously announced retirement in March 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-025425
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADUS
- cik: 0001468328
- company_name: Addus HomeCare Corp
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468328/000143774925025425/0001437749-25-025425-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468328/000143774925025425/adus20250804_8k.htm

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