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Gary Larcenaire announces his departure from Valley Behavioral Health as CEO. Mr. Larcenaire steps away from this role after helping navigate a complex series of organizational transitions. Changes during his time at Valley Behavioral Health include a negotiated exit from the Utah Retirement System, a complete rebuild of human resources, updates to information technology, marketing, and employee relations.
In 2011, Mr. Larcenaire was hired by the Governing Board. The organization has since rebranded to Valley Behavioral Health. When Mr. Larcenaire joined the organization faced near-certain insolvency after losing a key contract and designation with Salt Lake County.
In response, Mr. Larcenaire led a massive rebuild of Valley Behavioral Health’s physical infrastructure and leadership design. Today the nonprofit serves the homeless, individuals struggling with severe and complex mental illness, addiction, behavioral health challenges, trauma, and autism.
“Watching this team navigate the past year, meeting the needs of the community unselfishly during a pandemic efficiently, with equal concern for all stakeholders, especially employees and the customers we are trusted to serve, I knew I could move on to my next project with confidence.”
Mr. Larcenaire leaves Valley with a strong leadership team and a workplace satisfaction/engagement level ranking in the top 25% of health care companies. Over the past nine years, Valley Behavioral Health has enjoyed rapid expansion into primary care, lab, and pharmacy services, integrated primary care for patients, a strong expansion into the commercial health market. They have also seen a serious community health investment in the underserved Kearns region of Utah and a push into Idaho and Arizona.
Mr. Larcenaire and his team created an innovative, board-approved approach to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) systems that will ensure Valley and its affiliated brands will lead for the foreseeable future. This innovation has helped finance expansion efforts and new program development. Most notably, a soon-to-be-launched adult autism program center of lifetime learning. The only program of its kind in Utah.