Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc. engages in the provision of behavioral healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and currently employs 17,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2011-11-01. The firm is focused on acquiring and developing behavioral healthcare facilities. The firm is engaged in developing and operating inpatient psychiatric facilities, residential treatment centers, group homes, substance abuse facilities and facilities providing outpatient behavioral healthcare services to serve the behavioral health and recovery needs of communities throughout the United States. Its facilities that offer acute care services provide evaluation and crisis stabilization of patients with severe psychiatric diagnoses through a medical delivery model that incorporates structured and intensive medical and behavioral therapies with 24-hour monitoring by a psychiatrist, psychiatric trained nurses, therapists and other direct care staff. Its specialty treatment facilities include residential recovery facilities and eating disorder facilities.