Acadia Healthcare


Acadia Healthcare is a multinational behavioral healthcare provider. It operates a network of over 584 facilities across the United States, United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. Acadia provides behavioral health and addiction services to its patients in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, outpatient clinics and therapeutic school-based programs. The company was founded in January 2005, and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Operations

United States

Acadia operates facilities assisting patients suffering from behavioural problems, PTSD, trauma, eating disorders and substance abuse. Acadia emphasizes treatment for patients recovering from drug or alcohol addictions.
As of December 2016, Acadia began planning of a 120-bed psychiatric hospital. The $65 million joint venture with Greenville Health System was to replace the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital on the Greenville Memorial Medical Campus, South Carolina.
In April 2018, Ochsner Health System and Acadia Healthcare opened behavioral health center in LaPlace.

United Kingdom

In June 2014, Acadia bought Partnerships in Care, a British provider of mental health and social care services, and acquired the mental health assets of Care UK in May 2015, with 322 beds.
The company has been investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK in order to deal with concerns about the impact of its acquisition of Priory Group on competition. It sold 21 existing behavioral health facilities and one that has not yet opened for £320 million to BC Partners in October 2016.

Recognition

Tom Ryall, chief executive of the Priory Group, was named as the most influential leader in the independent healthcare sector at the HealthInvestor Power Fifty 2016.