Acadia Healthcare promotes a culture of empowerment, innovation and excellence. We are honored to be a respected provider of behavioral healthcare services, and we work diligently every day to ensure that every member of the Acadia team has the tools and support they need to improve our organization and enhance our industry.
Acadia Healthcare makes a concerted effort to offer appropriate training, ensure workplace safety and promote continued personal development so that our employees can continue to provide quality care to our patients. Key elements of this effort include a strong focus on employee safety, a comprehensive training program and a competitive benefits package. We commit ourselves to offering a desirable internal culture that encourages our employees both personally and professionally, supporting them as they reach their career goals and achieve to their greatest potential.
Benefits Offered to Acadia Employees
Acadia provides a competitive package of benefits for our employees. Current benefits for all employees who work more than 29 hours include:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Acadia Healthcare 401(k) plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Health care flexible spending account (FSA)
- Limited health care flexible spending account (LFSA)
- Dependent care flexible spending account (DCA)
- Prescription drug coverage
- Basic life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage
- Supplemental life insurance
- Supplemental accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
To encourage an ownership mentality, we grant equity awards to many of our key employees.
Acadia Healthcare Employee Care Fund
Established in 2020, the Acadia Healthcare Employee Care Fund is designed to provide short-term emergency support to employees who are facing serious financial hardship as a result of certain unforeseen and unpreventable circumstances, including natural disaster, life threatening illness or injury, a death incident or another catastrophic or extreme life events beyond their control. This monetary support is offered to those to help offset costs associated with these types of events and assist employees and their families during these difficult times. The fund is seeded through employee donations in support of colleagues who may experience such a hardship.
Comprehensive Training for Employees
Acadia offers programs to foster both leadership and professional skills development. All members of our clinical staff are trained in their professional disciplines, and we also provide support for their continuing education. Additionally, we offer company-wide training to reinforce key policies and practices related to regulatory compliance, safety, patient care and other key areas. Last year, we provided over 125,000 hours of training to clinic-based staff. Our corporate staff receives department-specific training and performance reviews annually.
The following are examples of training modules that Acadia employees complete:
- Regulatory Compliance: Part I – Corporate Compliance, Sexual Harassment, Patient Rights, Confidentiality, HIPAA and Grievances
- Regulatory Compliance: Part II – General Safety, Fire Safety, Electrical Safety, Ergonomics, Back Safety, Hazard Communication, Security and Workplace Violence, Reporting Incidents, Emergency Preparedness and Infection Control
- Zero Tolerance: Boundaries, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
- Customer Service: Excellent Customer Service, Delighting Customers and Methods for Handling Customer Complaints
- Active Shooter Response in Healthcare Settings: How to Recognize Indicators of Potential Violence and How to Become Familiar with Various Response Concepts
- High Reliability: Foundational Principles of Becoming a High-Reliability Organization
- Workplace Violence: How to Prevent and Handle Workplace Violence
- Social Media: Acadia’s Company Policy and Procedures on Social Media in the Workplace and Social Media Best Practices
- Diversity in the Workplace: Defining Diversity, The Benefits of Valuing Workplace Diversity, Legal Aspects of Diversity and Managing Workplace Diversity
- IT Security Awareness: Best Practices of Information Security for Data Protection, Passwords, Social Engineering and Spear Phishing
- Infection Control: Infection Control and How to Help Prevent the Spread of Disease in the Healthcare Setting
- Workers’ Compensation: Acadia’s Company Policy and Procedures on Workers’ Compensation
Facility Executive Training Program
To develop our future leaders, we offer a Facility Executive Training Program to eligible employees.
This is an executive development and training program aimed to create a pipeline of future facility leaders across the company.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Acadia, we value the diversity of perspective, thought, experience and background within our workforce. We strive to attract the best employees and partners regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age or sexual orientation. We believe fostering a culture that emphasizes fair and equitable treatment is at the core of our business. Bullying, intimidation or harassment of any kind is not acceptable in our workplace. Our DEI programs are overseen by our Senior Vice President of Human Resources and are discussed regularly with our Board of Directors. All employees receive mandatory annual anti-discrimination and anti-harassment trainings.
We are committed to maintaining a welcoming and inclusive environment and to treating everyone with dignity and respect. As of December 31, 2021, approximately 74% of our employees are women and approximately 47% are people of color. We have policies that strictly prohibit any discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, gender, marital status, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
