Debra K. Osteen has served as Chief Executive Officer of Acadia Healthcare and as a Class I director since January 2026. She has extensive experience in the behavioral health industry.
Ms. Osteen previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Acadia from December 2018 to March 2022, and as a member of the Board from December 2018 to May 2024. Prior to joining Acadia in 2018, she spent nearly two decades at Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS), serving as Executive Vice President of UHS and President of its behavioral health division for 19 years; she had served as Senior Vice President of UHS since 2005 and President of its Behavioral Health Division since 1999.
As part of her commitment to the advancement of behavioral healthcare, Ms. Osteen has served as an executive committee member for the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare for more than 20 years, including a two-term seat as president of the board, and served on the Executive Committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. She has been named multiple times among the "Top 25 Women in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare magazine (most recently in 2015) and to the Top 100 Executives in Healthcare in 2019, 2020 and 2021.