Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (ACHC)
Behavioral health facilities. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 52 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
23%
End of 2028
32%
Employees, annual report
25,000
Leading staffing pattern
Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now23%
- End of 202729%
- End of 202832%
- End of 203033%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 66%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
25,000 employees, 19,000 full-time, at psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment facilities and outpatient treatment centers, split by description; the physicians are contractors outside the count.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 23% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 36% people work and 31% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 66% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
25,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its facilities are in the United States (the segment table shows United States Facilities at 100%).
The filing: “Human Capital At December 31, 2025, we had approximately 25,000 employees, of which approximately 19,000 were employed full-time.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals | 55% | The acute inpatient psychiatric hospitals the filing describes, staffed by a chief executive, medical director, director of nursing and clinical staff, the largest part of the workforce by description (c); the filing counts no employees by facility type. |
| Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities | 30% | The residential recovery and child and adolescent treatment facilities, whose seasonality the filing describes, read at residential mental health and substance abuse facilities by description (c). |
| Outpatient Care Centers | 15% | The outpatient comprehensive treatment centers, read at outpatient care centers by description (c); small staffs per center. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 25,000 employees, 19,000 of them full-time; one facility with a labor union representing about 130 full-time employees; 74% of employees are women; contract labor used at certain facilities; psychiatrists and other physicians are generally independent contractors or medical staff, not employees.
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in one sentence: its cybersecurity risk assessments consider risks associated with cloud-based services and emerging technologies, including generative artificial intelligence and other machine learning technologies.
- “These assessments also consider risks associated with cloud-based services and emerging technologies, including generative artificial intelligence and other machine learning technologies.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 19,000 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 19,192 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 17,000 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 17,000 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 15,900 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 42,200 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 42,800 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 42,100 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 40,600 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 40,400 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 17,800 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 15,500 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,000 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 7,200 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 5,820 | 2012-03-13 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The 25,000 total is recorded under rule 2 where the universe row held the 19,000 full-time count.
- The filing counts no employees by facility type, so the shares are by description (c).
- Physicians working in the facilities are independent contractors and are not counted (rule 8).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-078266, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 23% now and 32% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. employ?
- 25,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 36% people work and 31% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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