Elysium Healthcare


Elysium Healthcare is a private provider of mental health services based in Borehamwood, UK. It was launched in December 2016 and combined sites from the portfolio of Partnerships in Care and The Priory Group when they were sold by Acadia Healthcare. It is owned by BC Partners.
It opened the 75 bed Wellesley Hospital at Chelston near Wellington, Somerset in 2017. It cost £20 million to build and will provide medium and low-secure treatment rehabilitation for patients with a broad range of mental health problems. Up to 75 beds at the hospital will be commissioned by NHS England in collaboration with Devon Partnership NHS Trust. The site was previously managed by Partnerships in Care. Elysium Healthcare has taken over ten of their sites.
It bought Badby Park Ltd in April 2017.
It bought up Crossley Manor School in Rainhill from Raphael Healthcare in 2017 and later acquired specialist learning disability and mental health provider Lighthouse Healthcare, based in Derbyshire. Its acquisition of London Care Partnership Limited in July 2018 brought it to more than 60 homes.
In October 2019 it acquired Chalkdown House in Swindon from the Disabilities Trust. This is a 20-bed, neurobehavioural site for people with a non-progressive acquired brain injury.

Performance

The company was fined £500,000 in 2018 because a patient jumped out of a moving vehicle and died. This happened in 2014 when the care was provided by the previous owners, Raphael Healthcare.
Concerns were raised about the facilities opened in 2017 at Wellesley Hospital in Wellington, Somerset by the Care Quality Commission because there was a "high volume" of assaults by patients on staff and other patients.
The Woodhouse Independent Hospital, in Cheadle, which accommodates up to 39 men with learning disabilities, autism, challenging behaviour and patients with sexual offending histories was placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission in September 2019. 90% of ward posts were filled by unqualified support workers and there were insufficient qualified nurses. There was excessive reliance on temporary staff.