Published on 12 Apr 2024 on Zacks via Yahoo Finance

Acadia Healthcare (ACHC) Opens Facility to Address Mental Health

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. ACHC recently inaugurated its new acute care hospital in Mesa, AZ. The new facility, Agave Ridge Behavioral Hospital, is equipped with 100 beds. Once the hospital concludes its final preparations to become fully operational, admissions of patients are expected to commence.

This new facility will provide a comprehensive suite of inpatient behavioral healthcare services for treating the adult, older adult and pediatric patient populace grappling with acute symptoms of bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. This move bodes well for ACHC, as many residents in the area struggle with addiction and mental health issues. Local officials have also supported the company in this effort. This newly opened facility takes ACHC’s purpose of ‘Lead Care with Light’ forward.

Increased access to enhanced behavioral healthcare services, will give a sigh of relief to patients in Mesa. The establishment of the hospital across a region that suffers from inadequate access to high-quality behavioral healthcare services seems to be a time-opportune move on the part of Acadia Healthcare. Mesa and surrounding communities have a shortage of roughly 800 behavioral health beds, which highlights the importance of the new facility to the region’s patients.