CEO of new behavioral health hospital in Dartmouth named

WILLIAM A. PARSONS JR. has been named CEO of Acadia Healthcare's new behavioral hospital, which is under construction in Dartmouth. / COURTESY ACADIA HEALTHCARE
WILLIAM A. PARSONS JR. has been named CEO of Acadia Healthcare's new behavioral hospital, which is under construction in Dartmouth. / COURTESY ACADIA HEALTHCARE

DARTMOUTH – William A. Parsons Jr. has been named CEO of Acadia Healthcare Co.’s new behavioral health hospital under construction on Faunce Corner Road.
According to a press release from Acadia, Parsons will be responsible for oversight of the new 120-bed in-patient hospital.
He said his No. 1 priority will be collaborating with behavioral health providers in the community to help improve the health and well-being of residents. Recruiting providers to the region is another goal, he said.
“We are pleased to announce the appointment of Bill Parsons to the role of chief executive officer for our New England facility in partnership with Southcoast Health. Bill has been instrumental in operating a number of new facilities in regions that are very similar to the South Coast and in dire need of inpatient services,” Joey Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Acadia, said in a statement.
The behavioral health hospital is being operated in partnership with Southcoast Health in Massachusetts. Southcoast Health and Acadia are in the process of completing a joint venture agreement for the facility’s operation.
The facility, slated to open in fall 2015, will feature five units, specializing in adolescent care, geriatric psychiatry, adult psychiatry and adult substance abuse.
“The opening of a new inpatient behavioral health hospital in the South Coast region will be life-changing for many families struggling with behavioral health issues,” Keith A. Hovan, president and CEO of Southcoast Health.
Parsons is coming from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., where he served as chief administrator of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and associate executive director of Vanderbilt Behavioral Health since 2009.

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