Chicago’s New Hope Recovery Center Sold

Mergers & Acquisitions Chicago's New Hope Recovery, among the very few new private addiction efforts in the city post managed care, has been sold to business-minded private therapist Jeffrey Zacharias. Founded about a decade ago by an entrepreneur in recovery Jake Epperly, New Hope became a treatment fixture on Chicago's Near North as it leased primary care space from failing med surg player Grant Hospital and expanded into areas like sober living as well. A relatively small center, Epperly's efforts, as well as his sale to Zacharias, are emblematic of the small scale entrepreneurial activity that . . .