Lakeview Behavioral Health Patient Victims GA

04/09/2020

Acadia Healthcare and Universal Health Services, both juggernauts in psychiatric care, are not offering remote work to its non-medical employees, as most area hospitals have done.

03/16/2020

Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ACHC).

03/06/2020

This man has been missing for almost a year from Lakeview Behavioral Health.

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01/25/2020

#7 Acadia Healthcare again!

The Lown Institute, a healthcare think tank, has released its third annual Shkreli Awards, a list of the top 10 worst actors in healthcare from the last year. The institute awards people and businesses that exemplify "profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare."

01/14/2020

Acadia Healthcare 2019 review

For-profit psychiatric facilities paid out $152 million in criminal or civil fines or settlements in 2019, of which $144 million was paid by two behavioral hospital chains, Acadia Healthcare and Universal Health Services (UHS). These are but two of nearly a dozen chains of psychiatric facilities tha...

01/13/2020

Received a phone call from Special Agents from the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s office. They came to my house last Thursday and met with me and another victim. They are meeting with other victims as well. Grateful that the State of GA is stepping up in the fight to close down Lakeview.

01/03/2020

We are still working hard to make sure Lakeview get permanently shut down but right now there is still not any information to share. Gwinnett County SVU is still working hard on their investigation.

12/23/2019

Today I talked to a parent that had a child taken to Northside Forsyth for suicidal thoughts. The case worker that came in was wearing a Lakeview Badge. Luckily this person has been following the news regarding Lakeview and insisted their child be sent somewhere else. It still makes me so angry that Northside has Lakeview Social workers inside of their hospitals grabbing patients for their hospital. 😡😡😡

12/08/2019

More than 50 local police officers raided a mental health hospital in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

12/08/2019

Two facilities operated by Lakeview Behavioral Health were searched by police.

12/08/2019

I will find a way home he’ll or high water to get in touch with Byron Coleman.

[Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout to include responses from Acadia Healthcare. A previous version indicated that Acadia did not respond to a request for comment.]

12/07/2019

Acadia again in the news. They do this in every single one of their facilities. I have gathered a list of all of their US hospitals and I’m going to start researching news stories on each and every hospital they run. Jim Spruyt and Debra Osteen I will take you down personally and professionally. And I’m going to enjoy every second of it!

Love,
Kerri Hitch

According to a Tampa Bay Times report, Bryon “BJ” Coleman Jr. had no health care experience when he was hired as the top executive at North Tampa Behavioral Health in 2018.