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Ascent Children's Health Services (ACHS) was a company based in Jonesboro Arkansas with facilities in several locations in northeast Arkansas. Its primary source of revenue was Medicaid payments for children. During the time ACHS was in operation a number of incidents of endangerment of patients occurred. In 2017 a child died as a result of neglect by unqualified employees and ACHS closed shortly afterwards. The COO was one James Cox. [1]

James Cox became the CEO of Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) in Jonesboro in 2020. In 2020 I was hospitalized there and nearly died and was left permanently crippled by the incompetent treatment and strongly suspect that my treatment was in part due to fraud as I was held there for months while my insurance company was billed a million or so dollars. Under his management the hospital was notorious for abysmal treatment of patients and had a very high death rate for a hospital that did not receive emergency or critically ill patients.

In late October 2024 ACCH closed and was almost immediately bought by Methodist Family Health (MFH). MFH announced plans to convert the facility into a 70-bed "acute psychiatric hospital for children and teens". To begin with that looks suspiciously like ACHS. Remember them? Aside from the question of whether the Jonesboro needs a 70-bed juvenile psychiatric hospital that facility is a decrepit 44-bed hospital. Expanding it to 70 beds would require almost doubling the size while making the existing plant suitable for use would require nearly a year of work and millions of dollars. If it opens in a matter of weeks or months someone should be very suspicious. If it is being run by James Cox I will not be at all surprised.

[1] The CEO of ACHS was Arkansas state senator Dan Sullivan. Senator Sullivan was attempting to relax and in some cases remove regulation of child care facilities when the death of the child occurred.