---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-21-001181"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACHC"
cik: "0001520697"
company_name: "Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-10-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T22:57:29.157081+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acadia Healthcare CEO Debbie Osteen to retire effective Jan 31, 2022

## Summary
- CEO Debbie Osteen will retire effective Jan 31, 2022; will remain on Board of Directors.
- Board has engaged a national recruiting firm to conduct a search for a new CEO.
- Under Osteen's tenure (since Dec 2018), Acadia's stock rose ~125%, adding ~$3.3B in shareholder value.
- Since 2018, Acadia acquired 14 facilities, formed 9 joint ventures, added over 1,000 beds, and divested UK operations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-21-001181
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACHC
- cik: 0001520697
- company_name: Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-10-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520697/000115752321001181/0001157523-21-001181-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520697/000115752321001181/a52503427.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001181
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001181.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001181.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Debbie Osteen departed as Chief Executive Officer at Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: announced that Debbie Osteen, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company, will retire as Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520697/000115752321001181/0001157523-21-001181-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.