Former Acadia president named CEO of Summit BHC

Brent Turner, the former president of Acadia Healthcare, has been named CEO of Summit BHC, a fellow Franklin-based provider of mental health and addiction treatments.

Turner left Acadia in early 2019, shortly after the company’s board fired CEO Joey Jacobs, alongside whom he had rapidly built Acadia this decade and Psychiatric Solutions for much of the 2000s. At Summit, he takes over as CEO from Jon O’Shaughnessy, who has stepped into the role of president after about a year as CEO and will continue to help oversee strategy, operations and M&A. O’Shaughnessy also is a veteran of Psych Solutions and Acadia; he was a division president at the latter for five years.