The Prisma Health board of directors announced Mark S. O’Halla as the health company’s new president and chief executive officer (CEO).
O’Halla has been serving as executive vice president/chief operating officer of Michigan-based McLaren Health Care since 2014. He has more than 30 years of experience in health care senior executive roles, including 13 years with the McLaren organization.
At McLaren Health Care, O’Halla led a 14-hospital system with two health insurance plans covering 583,000 lives.
O’Halla earned his bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio; and master’s degree in Business Administration from William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. He is active in several health care organizations including American College of Healthcare Executives and served on several community boards.
O’Halla and his wife, Anita, will be relocating to Greenville. They have three grown children.
Prisma Health launched the national search for its new CEO in January.
The current Co-CEOs, Michael C. Riordan, former CEO of Greenville Health System and Charles D. Beaman Jr., former CEO of Palmetto Health, have been working together over the last two years. Riordan retires (Friday) May 31, from Prisma Health. Beaman will step down from Prisma Health upon O’Halla’s arrival.