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The local 411 circulating is that Peninsula Village has been sold to a FOR PROFIT, PRIVATE organization. I will update this as I get more info...

That rumour started two weeks ago, either PV was going to shut down or it was on the block to be sold.

Here's the interesting part: Peninsula Hospital and Peninsula Lighthouse are still owned by Covenant. It was my experience that Peninsula Hospital was disdainful of PV's practices. Now they have no reason not to report the "new" RTC's crimes.

The formal announcement has been made.

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Acadia Healthcare Announces Acquisition of Peninsula Village Residential Treatment Center

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acadia Healthcare (Acadia) today announced the acquisition of Peninsula Village from Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville, TN. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Peninsula Village, a 145-bed residential treatment center located in Louisville, TN, is a residential treatment center serving adolescents ages 13-17 suffering from emotional and/or behavioral disorders who have not responded to less intensive treatment approaches. The facility’s name will change to The Village. Under Acadia ownership, The Village will look to continue to provide the same level of commitment to quality care that has been a hallmark at Peninsula Village for over 20 years.

“Acadia has extensive experience in the provision and treatment of adolescent residential services and is excited to add The Village to its family of services,” said Trey Carter, President and CEO of Acadia. “Village employees will become Acadia employees and business will proceed as normal to ensure a seamless transition for patients, families and employees.” “It is a pleasure to announce the completion of this acquisition and we look forward to welcoming The Village to the Acadia family.”

About Acadia – Headquartered in Atlanta, Acadia Healthcare was established in January 2006 to develop and operate a network of behavioral health centers across the country. Acadia facilities provide premier psychiatric and chemical dependency services to its patients in a variety if settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and outpatient clinics and therapeutic school-based programs.

Contacts

Acadia Healthcare, LLC
Karen Prince, 678-324-5000
Chief Operating Officer

hey i think i figured out some good advice for teens pre pv and post,
dont go off the deep end, never smoke pot more than once a week
and then cut it down to once every two weeks, then once a month etc. , and i know that sounds horrible, but i am thinking about people who had the sort of problems with it as a kid that i did,
so seriously to start out never smoke pot more than once a week

i am not condoning pot use but i rarely heard anything sane about it
either it was pot is completely safe and cool or they were beating the tar out of me like a bunch of irrational somethings
if you are smokeing a lot of pot, you need to think about it and the effect it has on you, its like being an alcoholic
and you need to control it

it is sort of what like opium or something or that guy who always has a beer in hand, people start doing it all the time especially young people. I am not saying anything about it otherwise it is better not to do it, but if you are already doing a lot of it think about it,
it isnt all that safe and its like drinking everyday but you can still sort of function on it

life tends to be sort a matter of getting things done
like paying your rent or passing a class
having good credit so you can rent an apartment etc.
or take out a loan to start a business

partying can be dangerous and time consuming
i think half the time teens just have too much pressure in their lives and need some help organizing their homework and lives

school is everyday at the break of dawn and then you have hours of homework everynight
add that to schools can be like a bad neighborhood with drugs and sexual harassment and bullying
and the adults arent that great a lot of them either

parents are a weird relationship, i know lots of people where its like can you imagine being their kid wow
think about it, there are a lot of people you know who you would not want to be a dumb child under with no way to provide for yourself
and there are kids i cant imagine being their parents

so i dont know, sit down with them every couple of nights and organize their homework
so they dont get overwhelmed and stop doing it

teens want to party because for example if you were to ask a nine year old do you want to go to a pool party they would want to go to the party?
hell i want to go to the party it sounds like fun and is cool

teens get depressed and then sort of overwhelmed turn to friends who are usually in the same boat for support
then they get in trouble and it goes down hill from there

adults with complete power over teens can be horrible, teens can be horrible

i have seen parental teen relationships that remind me of later divorces i have seen, where everyones emotions are so caught up and the people are not compatable have nothing in common dont get each other at all, but are stuck in the same house, biology is not picky about handing out children, and are emotionally furious and hurt etc. with each other

partying is fine if your careful and its something you do not out of depression or stress but as a fun thing to do at the end of a week of working or something,
paying attention to how much your drinking, dont drink more than three beers, not like your in some dumb 90's rock video or something,
not getting drunk and getting into trouble etc.

never have sex with someone who isnt on birth control, condoms dont work in the long run?
the planned parent hood clinic will give you birth control pills for 20 dollars
what else?

get yourself sent to a nice not too hard state school and get C's party once every two weeks or at the end of the week
take a semester abroad etc. have a nice life, graduate and so on

otherwise dont ruin your credit so you can rent an apartment with roommates
or take out a loan to start a business.

that does sound horrible but i still think its something a lot of people i have known over the years should keep in mind

i am not saying we should all smoke pot once a week
but i am pointing out a lot of people who smoke pot start doing it everyday or every other day
especially if they have a lot of other stuff going on

i dont think pot is good for you to be honest with you
i dont do it anymore at all, but i think it isnt good for you because its like the guy that always has the beer in hand people do it all the time

so if you are smoking pot NEVER smoke pot more than once a week,

and then cut back to once every two week?

and with drinking, go to a party once every two weeks, at the end of the week after your homework is done
and drink a beer or two, think about how drunk you are getting and what effect it is having on your life

is what i am trying to say?

keep your life together?

i have been taking zoloft
and i pick on the drugs they gave us, because they had us medicated to the gills like a bunch of lab rats
but i take zoloft and have for years off and on and i think its perfectly fine, and it does help with depression

oh and pot an alcohol get you drunken faster, especially if you are a teen and you only smoke pot and drink in binges anyway
and then you can get molested or black out or i dont know what all sorts of bad stuff happens

and if you drink three beers and you are a 115 pound girl and your anti depressent medication interacts badly with something you'll puke everywhere
its easy to get really drunk as a 115 pound girl

overall life is hard and dangerous, which is why it is nice when you have good credit and an ok job and a nice roommate and can live a boring comfortable life as an adult who knows how to organize things so they arent too traumatic

so my advice sucks, dont smoke a lot of pot is what i am trying to say,
think about how much pot you are smoking, i dont think smoking pot once in a while is that bad
but a lot of people i know start doing it all the time

pay attention to how much you drink

do an hour of homework everynight

dont mess up your credit

and figure out birth control?

you really shouldnt be drinking or smoking pot at all as a teen, your too young

but in college or something, or out of PV

organize your time, think about how much you are partying

do an hour of homework everynight

dont impolode,

if your parents suck you have to take care of yourself

in college party once a week
after your work is done

oh and dont get caught
that sounds horrible i know also

like dont come home drunk as hell and freak your mother out
even if you are depressed and doing some cry for help thing
or you just drank too much, or you are mad as hell at everyone and want to be out on your own already

there is no out on your own completely your always going to be under someone like a boss
so just suck it up and make the best of it
in college your ok as long as your grades are ok and your not blatantly drunk or stoned or crazy

you have to learn how to fit in and look like you are conforming, is a i guess what i am saying so as to survive enough

your only stuck under your parents for a year or two at the most and that is not very long at all
and high school has its positives

so that should keep someone safe and organized more or less i think?

oh and dont start smoking pot
it isnt that great its like drinking a beer, makes you fuzzy
it doesnt work all that well if you do it all the time anyway

and dont drink three beers, drink three beers at the very most,
pay attention to how drunk you are getting

if you are smoking pot, and are not going to quit
then never smoke pot more than once a week and cut back to once every two weeks

and then down from there

as a teen you shouldnt be doing any of the above anyway

but i think half of the time teens do the above because they arent doing well in school and there is a lot of pressure

so do other stuff like an hour homework every night

try not to get beat up or mugged or in car accidents or arrested or molested either?

make sense?

and dont smoke pot once a week,

i think an ok amount would be once every two weeks if you had to

like that wouldnt be that bad,

it wouldnt be great but it wouldnt be that bad, you can still function ok

my point was NEVER smoke pot more than once a week, because your turning into a big fat drug addict
or the guy who always has a beer in hand
like that uncle we all have.

its like beer only mellower and people can sort of drive on it

when i say partying in college, once a week

i mean go to a party once a week and drink a beer or two
and maybe not even once a week

i just think that is sort of safe ordinary have fun dont hurt yourself learn to drink like a responsible adult so you dont get hurt

or if you must get drunk pad the corners and think about who is around you and dont drive

i think i figured out the problem with pot

its like taking zanax or something, depressed people start doing it every night day whatever

i had a friend that was a clonopine addict, she was supposedly bi polar, she wasnt her family just had good insurance,

they were the same kind of drug, sort of pain numbing, relaxing, made things interesting etc.

this is why i think i know some people that use pot once a month and others who do it everyday

i dont do it at all, anymore

i do think it is relevant because the teens seemed to do a lot of it it was the most abused drug for sure

i did drugs as a teen out of PV, and none of them were what? mellow didnt have some sort of horrible depressing hangover enough to do overall. I remember courtney's clonopines though, and opium i tried once, same concept
easy to get addicted to because it is sort of mellow, like drinking a beer or two every morning

so for sure not something you should do often or all the time
or at all really

when i say i dont do it at all anymore
i got busy and got my life together and started doing it once a week then once every two weeks than once a month

and then once every couple of months and then not at all

my parents did it in college, and they did the same thing

so once your life is sort of together, people just acted like it was not anything to worry about as a kid

even my parents somehow

really its like the guy who comes home from work every night or every other night and has a couple of beers
its isnt ok and its even easier somehow to abuse than the guy with the beers

the thing is i would smoke some pot before a concert or something

because i went years with just smoking it once every couple of months and it was around i just didnt bother with it

so it can be like a normal person with alcohol i found

when depressed or if you loose a job or overall it is easy to start doing a lot of

so like i said i think a good rule of thumb is never smoke pot more than once a week, ever

my argument here was to get someone to cut down

if you havent already started dont
pot is bad because its like a prescription to klonopin's

i personally couldnt drink three beers when i got home from work everyday, too fattening and heavy

it is really easy to smoke pot often and more often and next thing you know its four times a week at least

its mellow, takes the edge off and relaxing with a limited hangover,
it is also very easy to get and easy to consume

so if no one is handing you a prescription to klonopins and you arent already taking two a day
you are much better off without a big bottle of them

especially if you are depressed or have other problems
because like two beers it is not all that great to study on, or go to work on bosses frown on this, or to go to class on, or to drive on etc.

so for all of us out there, and i speak from experience

pot is a drug also and NEVER smoke pot more than once a week

Here is a description of Acadia Healthcare from it's parent company Waud Capital LLC
http://www.waudcapital.com/portfolio/po ... cadia.html

Acadia Healthcare Company, L.L.C.

WCP established Acadia Healthcare Company, L.L.C. to acquire, develop and operate a network of behavioral health centers. Acadia provides world-class psychiatric care to its patients in a variety of settings, including behavioral health schools, camps and inpatient psychiatric facilities (“IPFs”). Behavioral health camps and schools provide therapy and education to troubled adolescents. IPFs provide acute psychiatric care to children, adolescents, adults and seniors. Most children and adolescents are treated in less intensive IPF settings known as residential treatment centers while patients with serious mental illness receive 24-hour acute care. People are either referred to a behavioral health center by their physician, psychiatrist or educational consultant, or identify a facility by its general advertisement. Common ailments treated include ADHD, phobias, intermittent explosive disorder, panic disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and alcohol/drug abuse. Acadia Healthcare’s mission is to create behavioral health centers where people receive care that enables them to regain hope in a supportive, caring environment.


Waud's portfolio
http://www.waudcapital.com/portfolio/default.htm

The formal announcement has been made.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site ...

Acadia Healthcare Announces Acquisition of Peninsula Village Residential Treatment Center

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acadia Healthcare (Acadia) today announced the acquisition of Peninsula Village from Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville, TN. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Peninsula Village, a 145-bed residential treatment center located in Louisville, TN, is a residential treatment center serving adolescents ages 13-17 suffering from emotional and/or behavioral disorders who have not responded to less intensive treatment approaches. The facility’s name will change to The Village. Under Acadia ownership, The Village will look to continue to provide the same level of commitment to quality care that has been a hallmark at Peninsula Village for over 20 years.

“Acadia has extensive experience in the provision and treatment of adolescent residential services and is excited to add The Village to its family of services,” said Trey Carter, President and CEO of Acadia. “Village employees will become Acadia employees and business will proceed as normal to ensure a seamless transition for patients, families and employees.” “It is a pleasure to announce the completion of this acquisition and we look forward to welcoming The Village to the Acadia family.”

About Acadia – Headquartered in Atlanta, Acadia Healthcare was established in January 2006 to develop and operate a network of behavioral health centers across the country. Acadia facilities provide premier psychiatric and chemical dependency services to its patients in a variety if settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and outpatient clinics and therapeutic school-based programs.

Contacts

Acadia Healthcare, LLC
Karen Prince, 678-324-5000
Chief Operating Officer