Thanks to additional funding of over $230 million, Recovery Centers of America is now able to expand throughout the Northeastern U.S., bringing its addiction treatment facilities much closer to those who desperately need it.

The firm, based in The King of Prussia, has plans to build some of the largest addiction treatment and behavioral healthcare facilities in the world and has already acquired eight new sites, among them Washington, Boston, and Paoli writes Gary Puleo for the Daily Local News.

The modern facilities, expected to open in May, will offer patients a more fully  encompassing care approach, including detox, inpatient, outpatient and ongoing support services, as well as locations that will be used as centers of sobriety, treatment, spiritual life and healthy sober living for both individuals and their families.

The founder and CEO of Recovery Centers of America and real estate mogul, Brian O’Neill, has been passionate about helping people recover from addiction for three decades.

“I did an intervention with a guy once, his mother told a bunch of people and the phone started ringing,” O’Neill remembered. “From there I started getting others into treatment facilities, getting them to go to meetings and do what they needed to do to get themselves well.”

Coming up with the idea during the recession, O’Neill started to bring into fruition his idea of a chain of treatment centers which would fundamentally change “the availability, quality and delivery of substance abuse treatment.”

He continued to explain that this approach has worked towards completely changing the status quo that had involved patients traveling huge distances in order to get treatment. “We are bringing full service centers to our patients’ neighborhoods so they can receive all methods of treatment in one place.”

The facility in Paoli is sorely needed, according to O’Neill, as there is a distinct lack of treatment centers that could tackle the exploding number of individuals dealing with drug, alcohol and other addictions.

“There are good places in Malvern and Reading, but there are way more people than there are beds,” O’Neill commented. “It’s very difficult to find places to get treatment today. There’s a heroin explosion. And we don’t have a system of hospitals set up to treat it.”

Leslie Henshaw of Deerfield Management, which is responsible for the $231.5 million boost to the project, noted that “Deerfield shares the company’s vision and strategy for attacking this challenge, and we believe that combining our capital and innovative market research capabilities with Recovery Centers of America’s uniquely experienced team can create a transformative platform for delivering addiction treatment services.”