Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Addiction treatment center operator gets additional $100M in funding



Recovery Centers of America, a two-year-old King of Prussia company that is establishing a network of addiction treatments facilities, has raised an additional $100 million from its lead investor Deerfield Management Co.

The funding commitment increases the total capital available to RCA to $331.5 million. Deerfield, a New York-based health care investment firm, provided the company with $231.5 million last year.


Founded and led by Montgomery County real estate developer Brian O’Neill, RCA has opened three addiction treatment facilities this year: Lighthouse in Mays Landing, New Jersey, where capacity has been maxed out while they work to double bed count; Bracebridge Hall, a converted Georgian mansion that sits on 550 acres overlooking the Sassafras River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore; and Westminster, a 90-bed addiction treatment center in Massachusetts.

The company has plans to open five additional centers— including one in Paoli that's now under construction — by the end of next year.

“We are extremely pleased by Deerfield’s continued commitment to help RCA realize its vision of bringing campuses for addiction treatment and recovery to communities throughout the Northeast,” says Deni Carise, the company’s chief clinical officer of RCA. “Over 23 million Americans battle addiction. It’s destroying individuals, tearing apart families, and devastating communities. We are in the midst of a national epidemic. In response, RCA is building a national network of neighborhood-based, treatment facilities to combat the problem. This funding will help the company achieve its goal.”
   
Leslie Henshaw, a partner at Deerfield, said RCA is “well on the road to uprooting conventional recovery treatments with bold new approaches designed to save lives and stem the epidemic of addiction afflicting our country.”

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