Azure Acres, a large drug recovery center near Sebastopol, is slated for closure next month, according to the facility’s corporate owner.

The site, on a roughly 30-acre property off wooded Green Hill Road, is no longer taking new patients and will close in early October. The recovery center is owned by Acadia Healthcare, a publicly traded, for-profit corporation.

The facility is licensed for 54 beds, according to state records.

“This decision followed a careful and comprehensive review of the current landscape for the programs and services offered by the facility,” Acadia Healthcare said in a Sept. 10 email to The Press Democrat.

State officials indicated the move is part of a wider shuttering of several other affiliated sites tied to the company across western Sonoma County, including

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