Back in 2007 the residential rehab sector was really struggling, even though the financial crisis was over the horizon. The recovery agenda had yet to take hold and incentives on treatment providers and commissioners were more about retention in treatment than sustained abstinent outcomes.
At the time I was working at Phoenix at the time, which included oversight of their ten, struggling residential rehabs. At the time Phoenix was by some margin the largest not for profit provider of residential treatment, so we took something of a lead in coordinating the sector.
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