Meet The Team

Specialty Care Services

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Al Simons

Founder and Managing Member

Combining his passion for community service and the home healthcare industry with a wealth of business experience, Al founded Specialty Care Services in 2002.


As a transformational leader with foresight and imagination, Al has an impressive history of surpassing ambitious business goals and delivering revolutionary solutions to government and private clients. He has a consistent record of positioning his company for success, spurring multimillion-dollar sales growth by opening new revenue streams and building highly accomplished teams that demonstrate profound dedication to operational excellence.


Prior to his success at Specialty Care Services, Al served as the Executive Director of the Private Pay Homecare Division of Adventist HealthCare, one of the largest healthcare companies in the Washington metropolitan area, where he built a team of highly credentialed staff and generated millions in recurring annual revenues.


Demonstrating both an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial spirit, Al has an innate ability to quickly identify and actualize valuable ideas, employing strategies that maximize organizational capabilities.


Al holds bachelor's degrees in both Business Administration and Finance from Morgan State University.

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Pearl Xu

Clinical Nurse Manager

A calm, kind, and thoughtful person who enjoys helping people, Pearl provides daily oversight of the Nurse Monitoring Division, ensuring clients receive the highest quality care and services.


Through Nurse Monitoring, Pearl is able to establish meaningful and lasting relationships with many clients, and she finds it incredibly rewarding to see the positive impact home care services can make in a client's life. In addition to working with clients, Pearl also ensures adherence to quality care in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.


Pearl began her career in home health care in 2015. Initially, she was drawn to the field due to the flexible schedule and ability to establish lasting relationships with the clients and their families through monthly visits. After working in the field for a few years, Pearl realized that home healthcare providers can change lives by helping clients remain safe and comfortable in their own homes and communities.


Prior to working at Specialty Care Services, Pearl worked in an in-patient Psychiatric and Geriatric Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus in Baltimore, MD.

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Amy Fass, BSN, RN

Nurse Manager

A passionate advocate of elder care while maintaining independent living , Amy uses her clinical leadership and mentoring skills to make a positive difference in the careers of our unskilled visiting staff. She provides clinical support, including home assessments for our Montgomery County Government In Home Aides Program (IHAS) and oversees all of the agency's unskilled visiting staff for this program as well. .


Amy brings over 40 years of experience as a Registered Nurse with clinical knowledge in community health, case management, home health, pediatrics, outpatient surgery and intensive care. Amy is the proud mother of 3 children, two of which have followed in her footsteps in the medical field. In her spare time, Amy loves to stay active and spend time with her family.