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 […]
Category: M&A
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. […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Dealmaking in the addiction treatment space remains in a sustained lull, suggesting a deeper recalibration on the part of investors and operators in the space. The addiction treatment segment is the prime and early example of investment in the behavioral health industry. But the overall appetite for dealmaking and […]
Outpatient mental health provider Nystrom & Associates Ltd. is working through a deal to acquire Ellie Mental Health’s Minnesota clinics. While still pending regulatory review, the deal would move the 25 locations of Ellie Mental Health—Minnesota to Nystrom & Associates. This would deepen Nystrom’s footprint in Minnesota: 42 of its 59 locations listed on its […]
Mental health vet Beacon Behavioral Partners is looking to expand through a strategic partnerships model with high-performing independent providers. The diversified operator believes that bringing private practice providers into the fold can help unify different expertise and standardize care. As a growing company, Beacon offers clinician groups equity and clinical autonomy. “It’s about enabling and […]
Lower-middle-market private equity firm NexPhase Capital has acquired the autism therapy provider Behavior Frontiers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lorient Capital, a health care-focused private equity firm, previously backed Behavior Frontiers, helping it expand its footprint to include 26 centers and home-based care branches across 12 states. It’s not clear if Lorient […]
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has acquired the digital mental health company UpLift in a deal worth $45 million. The company announced Wednesday that the acquisition of UpLift, a virtual therapy and psychiatry provider, deepens its footprint in virtual mental health services and further enables it to provide those services on an in-network basis. UpLift’s payer […]
Autism services-related deals surged 100% from the end of 2024 to the first quarter of 2025, reaching their highest volume since Q4 2020. Overall, behavioral health deal volume picked up in Q1 of 2025 after a two-year lull, according to new data from M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. The first quarter of the year […]
Many behavioral health M&A experts predicted a dealmaking rebound in 2025. So far, the year appears to be trending toward those expectations. One of the most recent transactions, in fact, came on Tuesday, when Valor Healthcare Inc. announced the acquisition of Mission Critical Psychological Services (MCPS). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dallas-based […]