Florida’s Southwest Florida Addiction Services and Lee Mental Health Center Explore Merger

Mergers & Acquisitions A possible merger between Southwest Florida Addiction Services (SWFAS) and Lee Mental Health Center, a deal aimed at streamlining treatment services, could be cemented as soon as January. The arrangement, negotiations for which were announced Monday, would combine two of Lee County's top mental health treatment providers and affect roughly 17,000 patients in Southwest Florida. Both organizations said that any new entity would keep in place services already offered by the two. Existing staff levels and clinics are also not expected to immediately change, SWFAS and Lee Mental Health officials said. David Winters, CEO of . . .