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What Acadia Healthcare layoffs have meant for employees

When Acadia has closed a facility, the date it announced and the layoff date on the state's notice haven't always matched. Timberline Knolls was set to close Feb. 13, 2025, Lemont Patch reported, while Illinois's record of its notice gives March 16 for the layoffs. In the fall 2025 closings, the facilities' closing date was Oct. 9, Behavioral Health Business reported, but the California and North Carolina notices for three of them gave Nov. 8 as their effective date in our WARN tracker. If your facility is closing, it's worth keeping the announced closing date apart from the layoff or effective date in the state's record, and your own last day may not match either one.

For eating disorder clinicians, the fall 2025 closings went past any single site. Acadia was shutting all of the eating disorder facilities it got with CRC Health Group, the trade publication reported, at a time when it listed eating disorder services at nine of its locations. That work sits in Acadia's specialty division, whose share of company revenue slipped from 22% in 2021 to 19% in 2024, and on its April 30, 2026 call Acadia said specialty revenue fell 6.5% in the first quarter, partly because of the 2025 closings. If eating disorder care is your specialty, the division it sits in has seen its share of revenue slip and, in early 2026, its revenue fall.

Pennsylvania holds the two leased facilities Acadia closed in early 2026, and Acadia's 2025 annual report lists it with California and Tennessee as states of substantial operations. By Acadia's account, the pressure there comes from New York's decision to stop letting its Medicaid patients get care at out-of-state facilities, which Behavioral Health Business said Acadia expected to cost it $25 million to $30 million a year in EBITDA. On the April call, Acadia said it was trying to make up the lost Pennsylvania volume with referrals from surrounding states and Pennsylvania. If your job is at one of Acadia's Pennsylvania programs, the company's own account of the strain there starts with patients from New York.

The reasons Acadia has given for its closings have been about individual places. "If we're seeing facilities that are underperforming and don't see a path to improvement, we're going to take action," Hunter said in 2024, Behavioral Health Business reported, and he tied one closing to a wilderness program Acadia couldn't staff. Acadia has also pointed to a lease, telling KCTV5 that Signature's units near Kansas City couldn't keep operating once their host hospital reclaimed the space that was their administrative hub. In September 2025, Hunter said of any facility "that doesn't fit our strategy" that "we're going to be aggressive," according to a Jefferies conference report.

The 2026 changes also reached people who don't work inside a facility, in two separate disclosures. In February, Debbie Osteen, back as chief executive, said the company was reviewing "the leadership, depth and the layers of operational supervision," the oversight that sits above the facilities. Acadia's April call added that its corporate team had reduced headcount, and those remarks gave no count of the positions cut or where they were.

Acadia's closings have run alongside openings. On the April call it said it expected to add 400 to 600 beds in 2026, primarily through new facilities, among them a joint-venture hospital with Orlando Health and a 96-bed facility in Iowa, so the company was shrinking some parts of its footprint while it built out others. The unemployment rules for the states where Acadia's notices since 2025 were filed are at Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and North Carolina.

A sourced history of Acadia Healthcare layoffs

• April 2026, White Deer Run Allenwood layoffs

  Acadia's White Deer Run Allenwood facility in Union County gave notice of 31 layoffs effective April 5, per the Pennsylvania row in our WARN tracker.

• First quarter 2026, two leased Pennsylvania facilities close

  In February Acadia announced plans to close two leased specialty facilities, which Behavioral Health Business tied to New York ending out-of-state care for its Medicaid patients. Its first-quarter closings were primarily two leased Pennsylvania facilities and two others announced in 2025, per its April 30 call.

• September 2025, five Acadia facilities set to close

  Montecatini and Azure Acres in California, Carolina House in North Carolina, Center for Hope of the Sierras in Nevada and Options Behavioral Health in Indiana were set to shut Oct. 9, a spokesperson told Behavioral Health Business, which counted 400 or more affected roles.

• January 2025, Timberline Knolls closing announced in Lemont

  Acadia said it would close the Lemont residential treatment center Feb. 13 after a careful review, Lemont Patch reported. Illinois's monthly report puts its Jan. 15 notice at 229 workers and March 16 layoffs; our WARN tracker row holds only part of that count.

• September 2024, Signature Psychiatric Hospital closing announced

  Acadia, Signature's parent, told KCTV5 that North Kansas City Hospital was reclaiming the leased space that was the administrative hub for both of Signature's psychiatric units, set to close Oct. 18. Missouri's notice listed 154 jobs, our WARN tracker shows.

• 2024, five facilities closed in one month

  CEO Chris Hunter said on the second-quarter call that Acadia had closed five facilities in the last month and two the quarter before, Behavioral Health Business reported. For one, a Western North Carolina wilderness program, it couldn't find qualified staff.

• July 2023, Cascade Behavioral Health closes in Tukwila

  Acadia closed the 137-bed Tukwila psychiatric hospital, and Washington moved to buy it for $29.9 million, Cascade PBS reported the next month. Washington's notice listed 288 jobs, our WARN tracker shows.

What to do if you're laid off from Acadia Healthcare

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Acadia Healthcare's biggest hubs: California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, North Carolina. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Acadia Healthcare's hub states run: California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, North Carolina, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.