St. Luke’s
reports departure of CEO
Jon Moses
By TRAVIS
PURSER
Express Staff Writer
Officials
of St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise announced at 4 p.m.
Friday that Jon Moses will no longer be CEO of the hospital’s branch in
the Wood River Valley.
St. Luke’s
administration negotiated a new arrangement with Moses during the week
prior to the announcement.
Moses will
work as a consultant to St. Luke’s for the next six months to help
finish projects that are in progress and to help with the transition to a
new CEO, when one is found.
The reasons
for Moses’ departure, which St. Luke’s director of public relations
Kerry George said was by "mutual agreement," are not clear.
"I won’t
talk" to the media, Moses said.
Moses was
"very happy" with the arrangement, said Preston Strazza,
chairman of the Community Board, whose 16 members St. Luke’s appoints to
help guide the hospital’s Wood River Valley operations.
"The
board recognizes and acknowledges that Jon was very successful,
particularly in the last year," Strazza said.
St. Luke’s
was "very aware of the accomplishments," Strazza said.
"I don’t
think that Jon can take full credit for everything that’s
happened," he added, referring to successes like the hospital’s
reduction of infection rates.
Both St.
Luke’s Wood River Medical Center and Moses were "interested in
severing the relationship," Strazza said.
Director of
nursing Theresa Bush, and other St. Luke’s executives, are overseeing
the Wood River medical center’s operations until an interim CEO is
found. The hospital and the Community Board plan to begin a search for a
permanent CEO as soon as possible.
Moses
worked for the medical center for five years, overseeing its conversion
from a publicly owned facility to a privately owned one. He oversaw the
construction of the new hospital, which opened two miles south of Ketchum
on Nov. 19, 2000.