Orville Mercer, MSW

Orville Mercer MSW, has 38 years of experience in the community behavioral health field working primarily with complex and difficult to treat populations. He was the CEO of MetroCentre in Illinois until its merger with Chestnut Health Systems in 1996, and has since then, led the growth of a dynamic community based system that now encompasses 13 locations with 400 employees.  Chestnut Health Systems has been piloting targeted case management approaches to Managed Medicaid Health plans in the region that have resulted in significant reduction of health costs for designated high user cohorts with an outstanding  ROI for these health plans. Mercer received his MSW from Washington University, in St. Louis in 1978.