Mount Carmel names interim CEO

Trinity Health has named an interim CEO for the Mount Carmel Health System after the announcement last week that President and CEO Ed Lamb will resign.

Michael Englehart will take over when Lamb leaves next Thursday.

Mount Carmel said Thursday that Englehart joined Trinity Englehart Health in August 2018 as senior vice president for medical groups and ambulatory strategy, working to improve physician effectiveness and creating care models and outpatient programs.

Previously, he spent two years as president and CEO of Presence Health in Chicago, a Catholic health system, where he oversaw a turnaround after several years of large operating losses and a merger.

He also has served as president of Advocate

Physician Partners and CEO of Advocate South Suburban Hospital, both in Illinois.

Englehart holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Lewis University, a master’s of business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School and a bachelor’s degree in history

from Northern Illinois University.

Lamb’s resignation announcement came at the close of Mount Carmel’s investigation of an intensive care unit physician accused of ordering excessive doses of painkillers over about four years for 35 seriously ill patients that resulted numerous deaths.

It also came on the heels of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the new Mount Carmel Grove City hospital.

Mount Carmel also operates hospitals in Columbus,

Westerville and New Albany, as well as an inpatient rehabilitation hospital, free-standing emergency centers, outpatient facilities, surgery centers, urgent care centers, physician offices and community outreach sites.

The Livonia, Michiganbased Trinity Health is a Catholic health system that includes 92 hospitals and 107 other care locations in 22 states.