Qualified buyers and investors engage Westwood to find, screen, and close behavioral health acquisitions that are never publicly listed — sourced directly, under confidentiality, and screened before they reach your desk.
Westwood represents buyers who need behavioral health acquisition flow that never reaches a listing site. Our buy-side clients are typically:
Most quality behavioral health assets are never publicly listed. Owners do not want their staff, referral sources, landlords, or competitors reading that their facility is for sale. That is exactly the situation our sourcing is built for: we approach owners directly, under confidentiality, with a credible buyer story — rather than waiting for a deal to appear in a marketplace everyone can see.
That also means we say no a great deal. If there is not a real fit between your criteria and what an owner will accept, we tell you instead of dressing up a listing.
Screening is where buy-side representation earns its fee. The point is not to show you more deals — it is to stop you from spending diligence money on the wrong ones.
Payer mix, rate sustainability, authorization practices, and whether the billing documentation will hold up under a buyer's diligence. A facility with strong census and fragile billing is not a strong acquisition.
Current license status, bed capacity, survey history, accreditation, and how difficult it is to replicate or transfer that license in that state.
Documentation practices, incident history, staffing ratios against licensure requirements, and anything that would surface in a regulatory review after you take ownership.
Whether the real estate is owned, leased, or held by a related party, what the lease actually obligates you to, and what happens at renewal. Related-party rent is one of the most common reasons a valuation changes materially after diligence.
Clinical leadership, staff retention, referral concentration, and how much of the operation walks out the door with the owner.
Whether the owner is genuinely prepared to transact, or testing the market. It changes how you spend your time and your money.
Engagements are structured around the mandate — scope, exclusivity, and timeline. We will walk through the structure that fits your program on an initial call.
Yes. Most mandates are deliberately narrow: particular states, particular levels of care, and a defined size range.
Yes, and the two sides are kept strictly separate. Information from a sell-side engagement is never used to source for a buy-side client, or the reverse.
It depends entirely on how narrow the criteria are and how many owners in those markets are open to a conversation. We would rather take longer and bring real fits than pad a pipeline.
Scarce, regulated, and a narrower buyer pool.
Read more →Per-bed economics, certification, and lease exposure.
Read more →Certification, prescriber dependency, and payer mix.
Read more →Confidential representation for owners selling a behavioral health facility, business, or license.
Learn more →What your facility is worth, what moves the number, and how to prepare for an exit.
Learn more →A sample of completed behavioral health transactions across the continuum of care.
Learn more →To discuss the purchase, sale, or valuation of a behavioral health facility, reach out to Westwood Behavioral Health.
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