Granite House & Mosaic Community Services Merge

Granite House and Mosaic Community Services Merge to Form the Largest Community Mental Health, Housing and Rehabilitation Program in Maryland

Carroll County based community housing and psychiatric rehabilitation program Granite House, Inc. and Timonium based community housing and rehabilitation program Mosaic Community Services, Inc. merged 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.

In February of this year, the Board of Directors of Granite House, Inc. announced it had signed a binding letter of intent to become a part of Mosaic Community Services, Inc.  Granite House has been a premier provider of mental health services to adults in Carroll County.  The Board  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.

"When we analyzed the benefits of strengthening both organizations by creating one larger entity, it was clear that a Granite House-Mosaic Community Services combination would result in an organization better positioned to serve our clients," explains Jeffrey Richardson, Executive Director of Mosaic.  "Because of the increased financial pressure on programs such as ours, which primarily serve the public mental health sector, our boards both welcomed the opportunity to create a larger, more financially stable entity that would be better able to reach out and provide even more services to our 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 and Mosaic are both 20+ year old non-profit behavioral health programs that provide 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 join 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. 

The majority of Granite House staff will continue with their current positions as Mosaic employees with the continuation of all services currently being offered to individuals with mental illness.  

According to Richardson, "We have spent countless hours to assure that the transition goes smoothly for our clients and staff.  Everyone is excited about this new chapter in the histories of our organizations.  It is important to us that the excellent psychiatric rehabilitation services offered by Granite House in Carroll County continue to be provided through the combined organization."

Mosaic Community Services is now the largest of the four housing and rehabilitation programs affiliated with the Towson based Sheppard Pratt.   Explains Sheppard Pratt President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein, "These programs are very important to the mission of Sheppard Pratt and to the continuum of care for the patients we serve.  We are very happy that Granite House chose to become part of Mosaic and we feel certain that their merger with Mosaic will result in a combined program more secure in its ability to weather the fiscal uncertainties that continue to confront the mental health care community."