Acadia Healthcare

Acadia Healthcare Appoints Dr. Stephanie Eken as Chief Medical Officer

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Eken as the Company’s new chief medical officer.

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  • Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Eken as the Company’s new chief medical officer.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240404108920/en/
    Acadia Healthcare Appoints Dr. Stephanie Eken as Chief Medical Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
    “Acadia is thrilled to welcome Dr. Eken as our new chief medical officer,” said Chris Hunter, Chief Executive Officer of Acadia Healthcare.
  • “This is an exciting time to join Acadia Healthcare,” said Dr. Eken.
  • Dr. Genovese departs Acadia after 10 years with the Company, seven of those as its chief medical officer.

Acadia Healthcare Accelerates Access to Care With Uber Health

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced a collaboration with Uber Health (NYSE:UBER).

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  • Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced a collaboration with Uber Health (NYSE:UBER).
  • The two companies are coming together to improve access to life-saving behavioral health care and addiction treatment by providing patients access to transportation, so they can begin treatment quickly and efficiently.
  • “By joining forces with Uber Health, Acadia Healthcare can quickly and easily connect patients with transportation to get the care they need, when they need it—and ultimately help improve patient outcomes at scale.”
    At many of its CTC facilities, Acadia has used Uber Health for the past few years to provide transportation for patients.
  • The Uber Health platform allows Acadia to deliver care early in the patient’s recovery cycle.

Acadia Healthcare Acquires Three Comprehensive Treatment Centers in North Carolina

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced that it has recently completed the acquisitions of three comprehensive treatment centers (“CTC”) in North Carolina.

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  • Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced that it has recently completed the acquisitions of three comprehensive treatment centers (“CTC”) in North Carolina.
  • Two of the locations, rebranded as Raleigh Comprehensive Treatment Center and Greenville Comprehensive Treatment Center, are located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Greenville, North Carolina, respectively.
  • The third acquired location, rebranded as Hillsborough Comprehensive Treatment Center, in Hillsborough, North Carolina, serves residents in communities from Durham to Burlington.
  • With these additions, Acadia now operates 10 CTC locations in North Carolina and 160 locations in 32 states across the country.

Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare Break Ground on New Behavioral Health Hospital to Serve the Greater Boston Area

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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Tufts Medicine, a leading Massachusetts integrated, academic health system, and Acadia Healthcare Company, the largest standalone provider of behavioral health services in the U.S., today held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on its previously announced state-of-the-art, 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Malden, Massachusetts.

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  • Tufts Medicine, a leading Massachusetts integrated, academic health system, and Acadia Healthcare Company, the largest standalone provider of behavioral health services in the U.S., today held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on its previously announced state-of-the-art, 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Malden, Massachusetts.
  • The event occurred on the site of the new hospital located at 100 Hospital Road and celebrated the joint venture partnership between Tufts Medicine and Acadia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240327491580/en/
    Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare Break Ground on the Construction of a New Behavioral Health Hospital in Malden, Massachusetts, with an anticipated opening in Fall of 2025.
  • (Photo: Business Wire)
    “We are pleased construction has begun on our new behavioral health hospital and training site for future behavioral health clinicians,” said Michael Dandorph, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tufts Medicine.

Henry Ford Health and Acadia Healthcare Appoint Emily Sexton as CEO of New Henry Ford Behavioral Health Hospital

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Henry Ford Health, one of the nation’s premier academic and integrated health systems, and Acadia Healthcare, the nation’s largest stand-alone behavioral healthcare company, today announced the appointment of Emily Sexton as Chief Executive Officer of Henry Ford Behavioral Health Hospital, the new 192-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital being built through a joint venture partnership between Henry Ford and Acadia in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

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  • Henry Ford Health, one of the nation’s premier academic and integrated health systems, and Acadia Healthcare, the nation’s largest stand-alone behavioral healthcare company, today announced the appointment of Emily Sexton as Chief Executive Officer of Henry Ford Behavioral Health Hospital, the new 192-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital being built through a joint venture partnership between Henry Ford and Acadia in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240220715559/en/
    Henry Ford Health and Acadia Healthcare announced the appointment of Emily Sexton as Chief Executive Officer of Henry Ford Behavioral Health Hospital (Photo: Business Wire)
    “I am honored to be selected for this role and thrilled to get started as we reimagine the delivery of behavioral healthcare,” said Sexton, a longtime Henry Ford behavioral health leader.
  • “Naming Emily as CEO is a crucial step in the successful opening and operation of this hospital,” said Adnan Munkarah, M.D., President, Care Delivery System & Chief Clinical Officer for Henry Ford Health.
  • Sexton has 20 years of nursing experience with Henry Ford Health with the last 10 years focused on nursing leadership and hospital operations.

Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Behavioral Health Hospital to Serve Greater Orlando Area

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Thursday, February 15, 2024
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Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare today held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on a previously announced 144-bed behavioral health hospital that will expand access to critical mental health services in the Orlando metro area.

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  • Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare today held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on a previously announced 144-bed behavioral health hospital that will expand access to critical mental health services in the Orlando metro area.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240215860586/en/
    Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare Break Ground on Construction of a New Behavioral Health Hospital in Apopka, Florida, with an anticipated opening in Spring 2025.
  • “This hospital will expand Orlando Health’s existing capabilities and provide greater access to life-saving behavioral health services,” Chris Hunter, Chief Executive Officer of Acadia Healthcare.
  • This hospital will extend Orlando Health’s legacy of providing quality behavioral health services to their patients.”
    Once the new hospital is fully operational, Orlando Health will transfer all inpatient behavioral health services from its South Seminole Hospital Campus.

Acadia Healthcare Enters Into a Joint Venture Partnership With Ascension Seton to Expand Behavioral Health Services in Austin, Texas

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced that it has formed a joint venture partnership with Ascension Seton, one of the leading, integrated healthcare systems in Austin, Texas, and a part of the Ascension national health network.

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  • Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) today announced that it has formed a joint venture partnership with Ascension Seton, one of the leading, integrated healthcare systems in Austin, Texas, and a part of the Ascension national health network.
  • This is Acadia’s second joint venture partnership with Ascension, having developed and opened Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2020.
  • “Through this joint venture, our organizations will partner in the delivery of high-quality behavioral healthcare to promote health and healing in the Austin community.
  • This joint venture will build upon our expertise while increasing the number of behavioral health beds and other behavioral health services available to patients throughout the region.”

Acadia Healthcare and Ascension Seton Form Joint Venture to Expand Behavioral Health Services in Austin

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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Ascension Seton and Acadia Healthcare announced today that the two organizations have formed a joint venture to expand access to behavioral healthcare in Austin, Texas, and surrounding communities.

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  • Ascension Seton and Acadia Healthcare announced today that the two organizations have formed a joint venture to expand access to behavioral healthcare in Austin, Texas, and surrounding communities.
  • Acadia has committed to employ Ascension Seton Shoal Creek’s inpatient behavioral health associates at the newly constructed expansion, set to open in late 2024.
  • This joint venture will build upon our expertise while increasing the number of behavioral health beds and other behavioral health services available to patients throughout the region.”
    Ascension Seton selected Acadia as their joint venture partner because of Acadia’s shared commitment to high-quality, compassionate, mission-driven care to improve the health of the individuals and communities they serve.
  • “Ascension shares our commitment to expanding access to high-quality behavioral health services and reforming the way mental health patients are seen and cared for,” said Chris Hunter, chief executive officer of Acadia Healthcare.

Ezra Mehlman Named A Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investor of 2023

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) is pleased to announce that Ezra Mehlman was recognized as a Top 40 under 40 Growth Investor by Growth Cap.

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  • NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) is pleased to announce that Ezra Mehlman was recognized as a Top 40 under 40 Growth Investor by Growth Cap.
  • Ezra was previously recognized as a Top 25 Healthcare Investor by the same organization in 2021 and 2022.
  • 2023 represents GrowthCap's tenth year granting these awards and represented the most competitive contest since inception.
  • Quite frankly, without Ezra and HEP as our key investor and residing on our board, we simply would not have achieved the success that we did.

Accanto Health appoints seasoned behavioral healthcare leader as CEO

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Monday, January 8, 2024
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accanto Health, a national leader in eating disorder specialty care and behavioral health services, announced the appointment of veteran behavioral health executive Dr. Tom Britton as CEO this week.

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  • ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accanto Health, a national leader in eating disorder specialty care and behavioral health services, announced the appointment of veteran behavioral health executive Dr. Tom Britton as CEO this week.
  • Accanto Health encompasses renowned brands: The Emily Program, Veritas Collaborative, and Gather Behavioral Health.
  • Britton expressed his excitement about joining Accanto Health, stating, “It is an incredible honor and privilege to join Accanto Health in the role of CEO.
  • On a personal level, he feels passionate about behavioral health in part due to his own experience with addiction and recovery.