Warning: This episode contains descriptions of captivity, mental-health trauma and suicidal thoughts. A Times investigation into a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals in the United States reveals a world where profits trump medical needs, and patients are detained against their will. Jessica Silver-Greenberg, an investigative reporter for the Business section of The New York Times, tells the story of one woman who was trapped inside. Guest: Jessica Silver-Greenberg, an investigative reporter for the Business section of The New York Times.
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From the New York Times, I'm Katrin Benhold, and this is the Daily a Times investigation into a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals in the US reveals a world where profits Trump medical needs and patients are detained against their will.
Today, my colleague Jessica Silver Greenberg on the story of one woman trapped inside it's Thursday, September 26.
So Jessica, earlier this year you started looking into abuses in the mental health care sector.
What made you dig into this one major chain of psychiatric hospitals?
Well, I'm an investigative reporter on the business desk, and I look at how big businesses collide with ordinary Americans and basically how those companies affect their lives.
So last year, my reporting partner Katie Thomas and I, while working on another series of stories about health care, got a tip.
It was more of a whisper.
It was something like, you guys should take a look at a company called Acadia Healthcare.
At the time, that honestly didnt mean that much to us.
We had no idea what Acadia was, certainly not a household name.
But when we started digging in, we got actually really interested because it turns out that Acadia is one of Americas largest chains of psychiatric hospitals.
I mean, I have never heard of Acadia.
So whats the story of this company?
So the story of Acadia is really a broader story of how Americans today receive mental health care.
So Acadia gets its start in 2005, and it's entering this new niche because mental health care used to be provided by essentially two big groups, nonprofit hospital systems or the government.