Press Release - Granite House and Mosaic Community Services Merge to form Largest Community Mental Health, Housing and Rehabilitation Program in Maryland
June 30, 2008
For More Information, contact: Laura Rhodes, (410) 871-0008, xt 140, laura.rhodes@mosaicinc.org.

WESTMINSTER -  Carroll County based community housing and psychiatric rehabilitation program Granite House, Inc. and Timonium based community housing and rehabilitation program Mosaic Community Services, Inc. will merge into one organization, effective July 1, 2008, resulting in the largest such program in the state.  Both Mosaic Community Services, Inc. and Granite House, Inc. are subsidiary organizations of Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Foundation, the parent organization of Sheppard Pratt Health System, Maryland's largest provider of mental health and special education services.

Granite House has been a premier provider of mental health services to adults in Carroll County since the 1970s.  The Boards of both organizations  determined that the most efficient and client focused outcome was to combine the assets and operations of Granite House and Mosaic Community Services, both of which serve residents of Central Maryland – Granite House in Carroll County and Mosaic Community Services in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Howard County.

"Nationally, slow growth in funding for vital public mental health services, along with increasing technical and regulatory demands, has resulted in a trend toward the development of larger, more integrated human service agencies,” said Spencer Gear, Executive Director of Granite House. “Our Board welcomed this merger as an important step in ensuring that Carroll County continues to enjoy sustainable, high quality services to consumers of public mental health services. Our hope is that the infrastructure improvements arising from the merger will enable us not only to keep the services we have, but also to add services more easily as they are needed by the community.”

As a result of the merger, all of the employees, programs and assets of Granite House, Inc.  will become part of Mosaic Community Services, Inc.   Granite House will maintain its services at its current location at 288 East Green Street in Westminster, providing behavioral health programs that include community housing, psychiatric rehabilitation and outpatient mental health services to individuals with mental illness.  Mosaic also operates a medical day care program and mental health programs for children and adolescents.  Jeff Richardson will continue as Executive Director of the combined organization.  Spencer Gear, Executive Director of Granite House, will continue to be active in the Carroll County services, but joins Mosaic Community Services as Chief Systems Officer.  The combined organization will have annual revenues of $25 million, a total of 500 employees and serve approximately 6,000 clients. 

For more information on Mosaic Community Services, visit www.mosaicinc.org.