The former CEO of the Australian Medicare Local Alliance (AMLA), Sean Rooney, has been appointed the inaugural CEO of the newly unified Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) organisation.

Mr Rooney will take over from Patrick Reid, who has headed LASA for the last three years. Formerly known as Aged Care Association Australia (ACAA), LASA represents many of the larger, for-profit aged care providers and is set to change its constitution to become a national organisation rather than a federation of state and national bodies.