By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Mosaic Life Care has brought in an interim CEO as it searches for the successor of Dr. Mark Laney, who took early retirement.
Mosaic Life Care Board of Trustees chair Serena Naylor says Mosaic has seen strong interest in the position.
“When you’ve got an outstanding organization like Mosaic, with a really strong balance sheet and wonderful positions and caregivers, you’re going to attract the best and that’s what we’ve been doing. We’re really excited about this list so far that we’ve already received,” Naylor tells reporters. “We’re hoping to have some kinds of an announcement by early summer.”
Naylor says Mosaic is fortunate to have Mike Poore as interim CEO, a position he has served at other hospitals. Poore will serve in the role until a permanent CEO is hired.
Mosaic’s board announced early last month that Laney had taken early retirement and that Chief Operating Officer Michael Pulido also left Mosaic.
Naylor declines to disclose why the board believed a change of leadership was needed.
“There were several reasons why and we just feel like we need to be the best possible outcomes for our caregivers and our physicians and we had to make those choices and that’s what we did.”
Naylor will not say why the board decided to move on from Laney.
“Those are personnel matters and I think we understand how that works,” Naylor says. “We don’t have any burning platforms. We are super strong financially. There’s nothing of malfeasance. There’s nothing ill towards the organization at all. It was just time for a change and that’s what happened.”
Naylor says Mosaic hopes to have a new Chief Operating Officer in place by the fall.