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Centerstone, a mental health consortium based in Nashville, expects to expand its circle of care to include clients in West Tennessee after a proposed alliance with Quinco Mental Health Centers is completed. Quinco, a major not-for-profit provider of mental health services in the western part of the state, is based in Bolivar, Tenn.

The Centerstone and Quinco boards recently voted to explore an affiliation between the two companies. After a "due diligence" process of reviewing each other's operations over a period of several weeks, the boards expect a final vote to complete the alliance. The combined entity will operate under the Centerstone name.

When the combination is completed, the Centerstone facilities will be able to serve more clients over a wider area and have relationships with more healthcare providers, insurers, community leaders and policy makers in more parts of the state. The boards see this as an opportunity to raise awareness of important behavioral health issues to an even wider audience than each reached separately.

"By combining our capabilities, expertise and resources, the proposed affiliation between Centerstone and Quinco will allow us to create an even stronger, more vital organization," said Centerstone CEO David Guth. "Quinco is known for excellence. We look forward to the opportunity to work together to provide more and better services to communities across Middle and West Tennessee."

After more than 50 years of service in the Middle Tennessee area, Centerstone is the state's largest provider of behavioral health services. Now recognized as the ninth-largest provider in the United States, it was founded in 1955 as the Mental Health Guidance Center of Middle Tennessee and renamed in 1971 in honor of volunteer Louise "Dede" Bullard Wallace. The Dede Wallace Center operated in Nashville until 1997, when it affiliated with Pinnacle Health to form Centerstone, a name formally adopted in 2002. Some of the facilities within the Centerstone system retain a reference to their original names at their site in honor of the individuals after whom they were named, including the Dede Wallace Campus, Ella Hayes Center, Frank Luton Center and Harriett Cohn Center.

Last year, Centerstone served children, adolescents, adults, seniors and their families from its more than 65 facilities and more than 140 schools and community partnership locations throughout Middle Tennessee.

The addition of the Quinco operation brings an additional 5,000 clients to a base of more than 50,000 currently served by Centerstone. Quinco's 150 employees in Bolivar, Decaturville, Henderson, Jackson, Lexington, Savannah and Selmer will be employed by Centerstone.


June 2007

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