Inside Caron Treatment Center’s C-Suite Shakeup
By Laura Lovett
August 18, 2026
At least five top leaders at Caron Treatment Centers have parted ways with the company as part of a leadership shakeup that played out during the summer. In July, the organization announced that board member Steven Wall has taken on the CEO role on an interim basis, replacing John Driscoll.
The move comes as several other C-suite leaders have also departed: former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adam Scioli and former Chief Administrative Officer James Flint, both of whom list July as their final month with the company on LinkedIn; neither remains listed on Caron’s website.
Driscoll came to Caron in 2023 and served as president and CEO until this summer. During his tenure, Caron highlighted efforts involving addiction-treatment research, value-based care, and commercial insurance partnerships.
Caron Treatment Centers is a nonprofit behavioral health and addiction treatment provider. The Pennsylvania-based provider was founded more than 70 years ago and offers inpatient and outpatient programs, as well as research, prevention, and recovery-support services.
Wall first became involved with Caron as a patient more than 16 years ago and then as a board member. An attorney by training, he is a managing partner at the law firm Morgan Lewis. His interim CEO role at Caron will run through June 30, 2027.
"Over the last three years, the revenue for the business has declined 9%, and the expenses have increased 9%, and so that ratio doesn’t work for any company, nonprofit or not, which wants to continue in existence," Wall told Behavioral Health Business. "Caron is financially very healthy. Its balance sheet is very strong, with net assets well over $120 million. We are nowhere near any risk of insolvency. We’re nowhere near any risk of going out of business. But the board of trustees felt that that trend of reduced revenue and increased expenses indicated a misdirection with the strategy."
Wall noted that, upon taking this position, his first priority is to shore up the provider’s clinical programs, as well as its spiritual care, family education, and alumni affairs programs.
"The way to do that is to bring expenses in line with our revenue," he said. "We’ve already started that in the first few weeks that I was in the position; we reduced overhead. Not a single patient-facing employee has left the organization."