Acadia Healthcare operates 262 behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities across 39 US states and Puerto Rico, employing around 25,500 people and serving some 75,000 patients daily.
Acadia Healthcare is the largest stand-alone behavioral health company in the United States. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, it employs approximately 25,500 people across a network of 262 treatment facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico. Those facilities hold roughly 11,850 beds and serve about 75,000 patients a day.
The company operates a full continuum of behavioral health and addiction services. Its clinical footprint includes acute inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, specialty programmes for behavioral health and addiction disorders, and outpatient options spanning partial hospitalisation programmes (PHP), intensive outpatient programmes (IOP) and traditional outpatient care. It also runs medication-assisted opioid treatment clinics. Facilities are accredited by The Joint Commission and CARF.
For prospective staff, the organisation covers psychiatric care, addiction treatment and medication-assisted opioid treatment as its principal clinical domains. Its stated mission is to provide compassionate care that improves lives, inspires hope and elevates communities, expressed in the phrase "Lead Care With Light®". It describes its aims as setting standards for the treatment of specialty behavioral health and addiction disorders, expanding access to care and reducing the stigma attached to mental illness and addiction.
