Partnerships in Care is a British provider of mental health and social care services. In June 2013, the

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failed the firm’s Annesley House hospital in

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against all five standards of care. Patients said some staff were “brilliant” but others had “mocked and humiliated them”. Bullying on wards was a persistent problem at the service, which provides low secure and rehabilitation wards for female patients. In June 2014 Partnerships in Care was acquired by

Acadia Healthcare Acadia Healthcare is an American provider of behavioral healthcare services. It operates a network of over 225 facilities across the United States and Puerto Rico. Overview The company was founded in January 2005, and is headquartered in Frank ...

in the US from

Cinven Cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977, with offices in nine international locations in Guernsey, London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Hong Kong that acquires Europe and United States based corporat ...

(a British Private Equity company) and by June 2015 had added over 500 new beds. The company now has over 1800 beds. In May 2015 the company bought the mental health assets, consisting of 322 beds, from

Care UK Care UK is a provider of residential care for older people. They operate more than 150 homes offering residential care, dementia care, and nursing care. The company formerly also operated a wider range of healthcare services until 2019 when ...

. Elysium Healthcare took over ten of its sites in 2017. It runs Priory Hospital East Midlands, a specialist hospital in

Annesley Annesley is a village and civil parish in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, between Hucknall and Kirkby-in-Ashfield. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,162 (including Annesley Woodhouse to the west). Annesley Hall ...

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