New Investment Supports Continued Geographic and Product Growth While Adding Experienced Behavioral Healthcare Executive to Management Team
St. Louis, MO — December 2, 2015 — CenterPointe Behavioral Health System, LLC (CBHS)
announced today a control growth capital investment co-led by a syndicate of investors including Health Enterprise Partners and NaviMed Capital, with participation by Siguler Guff & Company, LP.
CBHS currently owns and operates high-quality freestanding psychiatric hospitals, outpatient behavioral programs, and other psychiatric specialty programs in multiple states including Missouri, Illinois, and Minnesota. CBHS assets include CenterPointe Hospital in St. Louis, MO and Signature Psychiatric Hospital in Kansas City, MO.
The senior management team at CBHS is led by Dr. Azfar Malik and John “Buddy” Turner. As the founder of CenterPointe Hospital, Dr. Malik continues his leadership role as President and Chief Medical Officer of CBHS. Since founding CenterPointe Hospital in 2003, Dr. Malik has grown CenterPointe’s clinical offering from 20 beds to nearly 200 beds while delivering consistently high quality care to a broad spectrum of psychiatric patients in a variety of care settings including inpatient, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient practices.
Mr. Turner, an experienced behavioral healthcare executive, has recently joined CBHS as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer to drive the company’s strategic plan as he leads the next phase of growth for CBHS.
“The entire CenterPointe Behavioral Health Systems family is excited for the next chapter of our growth with our new investors and in partnership with Buddy Turner,” said Dr. Azfar Malik. “CBHS commits to continue serving patients and their families with the highest clinical quality behavioral health programs.”
Prior to joining CBHS, Mr. Turner led Behavioral Centers of America (BCA), a multi-site behavioral care company, through its successful sale in 2013. HEP and Siguler Guff were investors in BCA, and Rick Stowe, a partner of HEP, served on the Board of Directors. Mr. Turner has more than 20 years of healthcare management experience in both the non-profit and the proprietary sectors.
“I am excited to work with Dr. Malik and the team at CBHS as we build on the strong foundation
of clinical care that they have created over the past 15 years,” said John “Buddy” Turner.
“Recognizing the significant policy-driven growth opportunity in behavioral health, NaviMed is pleased to partner with CBHS, one of the leading proprietary mental health services providers in the country,” said Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh, CBHS board member and Managing Director at NaviMed Capital.
“Continuing our tradition of investing in and helping build leading behavioral healthcare companies, Health Enterprise Partners is enthusiastic to be partnering with Dr. Malik, Buddy, and all of the employees at CBHS,” said Ezra Mehlman, CBHS board member and Vice President at Health Enterprise Partners.
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