This is an exclusive BHB+ story Investors started 2025 optimistic about the future of dealmaking in behavioral health. As a substantial cohort of portfolio companies approached the end of their typical private equity hold periods, investors anticipated a wave of high-quality assets becoming available for acquisition. Additionally, many investors looked to the Trump presidency as […]
Category: M&A
Orchard Mental Health Group announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Maryland Counseling Associates, adding four new locations to its footprint and 31 clinicians to its clinical workforce. This marks the third acquisition by Orchard Mental Health Group in 2025. In February, it acquired GBCC Behavioral Health and Oasis Behavioral Health Urgent Care. Cumulatively, Orchard […]
Bradford Health Services has acquired three facilities and supporting assets to bolster its foothold in Texas. The addiction treatment provider announced Wednesday that it had acquired Last Resort Recovery Center, Crestone Wellness, and The Chapter House from a trust controlled by Bill and Ann Schneider, long-time investors and operators in the addiction treatment space. Cumulatively, […]
Heading into 2025, many M&A experts expected behavioral health transaction activity to rebound. Recently released data further supports the notion that this prediction is playing out in reality. Specifically, behavioral health dealmaking was up 35% in the first quarter of 2025, according to analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (Pwc). What’s more, PwC expects the M&A pace to […]
Ohio behavioral health nonprofits Butler Behavioral Health and Best Point Education and Behavioral Health have merged. Following the deal, Butler will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Best Point Education and Behavioral Health. The merger came to fruition after Best Point evaluated five other potential partnerships over the last 18 months, but ultimately found […]
Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services, the largest addiction treatment provider in North America, is on the market, according to media reports. Axios reported Thursday that BayMark Health Services’ private equity backer, Webster Equity Partners, has taken the company to market and reports BayMark’s marketed earnings total $75 million. Representatives from BayMark and Webster Equity Partners […]
Nashville, Tennessee-based Acute Behavioral Health has acquired Nova Behavioral Health’s residential treatment facility in Kinston, North Carolina. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The facility operates 42 beds across three different buildings on a six-acre campus. Technically speaking, the facility, called Oakwood Treatment Center, is licensed by North Carolina as a psychiatric residential […]
Shreveport, Louisiana-based Seaside Healthcare has sold off its two major behavioral health divisions. SUN Behavioral Health has purchased its outpatient therapy business. The Graph Group has acquired its acute and intermediate behavioral health care services. Seaside Healthcare’s now-previous backer, Pharos Capital Partners, sold the company’s assets in different parts to maximize the clinical offering of […]
Brooklyn, New York-based Valera Health has acquired the digital suicide prevention startup Vita Health. The deal expands Valera Health’s presence in digital psychiatry. The move’s most important result is improving clinical capacity at the company, further allowing it to care for even the most acute patients who can be treated as outpatients. This, in turn, […]
Dealmaking in autism therapy is off to a hot start, after a few years of depressed volumes, marked by two recent deals from new entrants to the industry. On Tuesday, Fullerton, California-based Alongside ABA and Warren, New Jersey-based ABA Unlimited each announced acquisitions. Alongside acquired San Diego ABA, which is based in its titular city. […]