As Shelby County lacks even a single residential addiction-treatment center, Alabama’s dominant rehab chain is pushing state regulators to deny a 60-bed project that the Statewide Health Coordinating Council has already cleared, and Governor Kay Ivey has already signed into the State Health Plan.

Bradford Health Services, owned by New York private-equity firm Lee Equity Partners, filed a formal challenge to Longleaf Recovery & Wellness’s Certificate of Need (CON) for Longleaf Lodge earlier this month.

Longleaf Recovery & Wellness, founded, owned and operated by Alabamians, wants to convert a 125-acre horse farm in Shelby County into Longleaf Lodge – a $33 million, 60-bed campus with 10 detox and 50 residential beds.

The project is precisely the kind of capacity Alabama’s own health-plan

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