For the week of Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2002

St. Luke’s reports departure of CEO Jon Moses

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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.

 

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