What happened to you at CenterPointe Hospital was not okay.

In March 2025 a former patient sued CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia and its owner, Acadia Healthcare, in Boone County over what another patient did to her on a unit where, she alleged, nobody was watching. State surveyors had already written both CenterPointe hospitals up, in 2024 and again in 2025, for how they handled reports of abuse. Both, because there are two: 150 beds in St. Charles, 80 on the north side of Columbia, and Acadia, a company out of Franklin, Tennessee, has owned the pair since December 31, 2021. If you were a patient at either one since 2022, or your child was, this page is about you.

WatchingSeptember 2026: the one lawsuit on this name, Boone County No. 25BA-CV01702, ended when the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed it with prejudice on July 8, 2026, after discovery and with a February 2027 trial date set. No new complaint, charge or regulatory order naming CenterPointe has appeared since; we check Boone and St. Charles County filings and the state inspection reports, next on September 26, 2026. The questions work now.

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Looking for the page about the company that owns CenterPointe? Acadia Healthcare in Missouri: Lakeland, CenterPointe St. Charles and CenterPointe Columbia on one page.

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It was another patient, not staff. That is exactly what the Boone County petition alleged: a patient with what the petition called prior sexual misconduct issues, and a hospital that, it said, didn't supervise or warn. The question is never what the other patient did. It is who was supposed to be watching a locked unit.
You were an adult. Most CenterPointe beds are adult beds, and both hospitals run senior units too. Missouri's clock for an adult is the shorter one, five years, so answer the age question the way it was and let a lawyer read your dates.
Nobody believed you, or they wrote it off. In April 2024 the surveyors' report on Columbia records a patient who asked for a rape kit at 6:56 in the morning and a physician who thought it "appeared to be a dream or delusion." The investigation started three days later. A report that went sideways is a fact for the file, not a strike against you.
It was reported and the person kept working, or came back. The Columbia reports describe staff who finished their shift after an allegation, and in St. Charles the hospital's own paperwork says nobody was taught anything afterward. If that is what you remember, say so on the call; it matters more than you'd think.
You were a teenager on the adolescent unit. St. Charles had one in 2024, and Columbia's is called Stepping Stones. A child on a locked unit can't leave and can't pick who works the hall. The questions ask whether you were under 18 because the deadline math is different and, for most of you, longer.
You're a parent, or a guardian, or a court sent your kid there. Use the "asking for my child" button; the questions rewrite themselves for you, and the call is the same call.

What the record says about CenterPointe Hospital: what was filed, what was found, and when

None of what follows is ours. A Boone County court file, three state inspection reports written for Medicare, a Columbia newsroom and Acadia's own filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission wrote it, and every line links to where we read it. Where it says "alleges," that is the word: no judge or jury ever ruled on the Boone County case, CenterPointe and Acadia admitted nothing in it, and the inspection reports are findings about how the hospitals handled reports of abuse, not findings that any particular thing happened. Said plainly: the records below are about the two CenterPointe hospitals. The conviction and the petitions on the Acadia Missouri page are about Lakeland in Springfield, and we don't re-tell them here.

December 31, 2021

Acadia Healthcare closed its purchase of CenterPointe Behavioral Health System, "the largest dedicated behavioral healthcare provider in the state of Missouri" in Acadia's words, for $139 million in cash: four inpatient hospitals with 260 acute beds and ten outpatient locations. From that day the St. Charles and Columbia hospitals were Acadia's. Which is the reason every question here says 2022 or later. Before that, somebody else owned them. Acadia 8-K exhibit, February 28, 2022.

March 30 to April 18, 2024

Columbia first. The physician's account of it to surveyors was that it "appeared to be a dream or delusion." It: a 29-year-old patient at CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia telling staff, at 6:56 on the morning of March 30, that someone had come into her room overnight and sexually assaulted her, and asking for a rape kit. A physician's assistant told them she offered a forensic exam that morning and the patient declined it. The risk manager first heard of any of it on April 2, three days later; a forensic exam was offered again that day and accepted; the hospital ruled the allegation unsubstantiated, and its own risk manager called the investigation a "mess." State surveyors, on site April 16 to 18, found the hospital "failed to follow their internal policy for investigation of abuse and neglect and perform a timely and thorough investigation," and that in two other abuse allegations that March, neither of them sexual, the accused staff were kept on the floor instead of being removed at once. CMS inspection report, CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia, April 2024.

May 23 to September 1, 2024

At CenterPointe Hospital in St. Charles, two incidents on the hospital's own forms. The first is from May 23 on the adolescent unit, and it came from a fellow patient, who reported that two patients, 15 and 16, had allegedly had sexual contact in a bathroom; "staff members were unaware of incident until it was reported by another patient," the form says. Then June 10. A 25-year-old on one-to-one observation reported that a behavioral health associate had sexually abused her in a bathroom, on or about May 30. He was suspended within eight minutes. The hospital's self-report says it investigated both thoroughly and gave staff no education afterward; its risk manager "did not know why." Surveyors on site August 26 to September 1 cited the hospital for that, and for fentanyl and a shank found on units that August with no documented investigation. CMS inspection report, CenterPointe Hospital, St. Charles, August–September 2024.

January 19 to March 19, 2025

Back in Columbia. A 44-year-old admitted on a 96-hour hold reported on January 20 that a male behavioral health associate had sexually assaulted her at about one o'clock the afternoon before. A police report was filed and she went to another hospital for a forensic exam. The associate was suspended, denied it, and resigned after the risk manager's interview. The hospital took statements from the two of them and nobody else, "was unable to substantiate or unsubstantiate the allegation," and gave staff no education after it. The same report records a 16-year-old whose father had to call the patient advocate before anyone told him about a staff member's conduct during a hold; that staffer was fired for gross misconduct. Surveyors in March 2025 cited the hospital on three of the four abuse allegations reviewed. CMS inspection report, CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia, March 2025.

March 25, 2025

The one lawsuit. A petition filed in the Circuit Court of Boone County, No. 25BA-CV01702, by a former patient listed as Jane Doe, against CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia LLC and its parent, Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. It alleged that another patient sexually assaulted her on August 14, 2024, that the other patient "had prior sexual misconduct issues," and that she was taken to University Hospital for a sexual assault exam only the next day, where, the petition says, the providers asked why she hadn't been brought in the same day. Counts of negligence, including supervision and failing to warn and protect. And this, about the company: Acadia "should have known, based on prior reports of assault or abuse at its facilities, that guests, like Plaintiff, were at risk for harm when not properly supervised and/or if security was inadequate." All of it alleged. ABC 17 said it had reached out to CenterPointe. ABC 17 News (KMIZ), Columbia, March 25, 2025.

August 19, 2025 to February 23, 2026

The case was fought. Acadia asked the court to throw it out, arguing a Tennessee company couldn't be sued in Missouri; on August 19, 2025 Judge Jeff Harris denied that motion, and both defendants answered on August 29. On February 23, 2026 the court granted the plaintiff's motion to compel discovery against Acadia, 90 days to comply. Through the spring of 2026 roughly ten hospital staff were noticed for depositions, and a five-day jury trial was set for February 22, 2027. Every one of those is a docket entry, not a finding. Case.net docket, Boone County No. 25BA-CV01702 (litigant search: Centerpointe Hospital).

July 8, 2026

The plaintiff voluntarily dismissed her case with prejudice, after discovery and with the February 2027 trial date set. The court's entry of July 14, 2026 closed the case and the trial settings were cancelled the next day. With prejudice means she cannot refile it. Nothing on the docket says why, and no court ruled on whether the hospital or Acadia did anything wrong. We won't guess for you. Case.net docket, Boone County No. 25BA-CV01702, entries of July 8, 14 and 15, 2026.

We checked this on September 15, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from July 8, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a CenterPointe Hospital lawsuit

The company that owns the hospital. In Columbia that is CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia LLC, and above it Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, NASDAQ ticker ACHC, which has owned both CenterPointe hospitals since the last day of 2021. Both were named as defendants in Boone County. Acadia's first move there was to say it couldn't be sued in Missouri at all; the court said it could. That matters, because a hospital is a building and a license; the company behind it decides how many people work a unit, what an observation order means in practice, and what happens the morning a patient reports an assault. The petition said Acadia should have known, from reports at its own facilities, what happens when supervision fails. An allegation, never tested; the case ended on the plaintiff's own dismissal. Acadia's page here, /acadia-healthcare-missouri-survivors, carries the company's Missouri record, most of it about Lakeland in Springfield, and the same questions run on both pages.

The theory is negligence, in plain words. Not a wrong diagnosis. Not a treatment error. A person on a locked unit, adult or child, cannot leave, cannot choose who works the hall, cannot lock a door. Whoever runs that unit took on the watching. Read the three inspection reports and the list writes itself: a report treated as a delusion, an investigation three days late, accused staff who finished their shift, two teenagers nobody noticed, no education for staff afterward. Each is a surveyor's finding about process; none decides any one person's case. A lawyer connects what the reports found to what happened to you.

The person who did it, where there is one. In the Boone County case it was another patient, unnamed in the file because of a possible criminal case; in the January 2025 Columbia report, a staff member who denied it and resigned; in St. Charles, a staffer who was suspended, and two adolescents who were both patients. Nobody has been charged in connection with either CenterPointe hospital that we have found. We say that plainly because a page like this should never make a case sound bigger than it is.

Your deadline: the Missouri statute of limitations for abuse at CenterPointe Hospital

Two clocks, and the one that matters for a claim against the hospital or Acadia is the shorter one. Against the person who did it, Missouri's childhood sexual abuse statute, RSMo 537.046, runs to ten years past your 21st birthday, or three years from the day you connected the harm to what happened, whichever is later. But in 2016 the Missouri Supreme Court read that statute to reach the abuser only, never the institution. A claim against CenterPointe or the company runs instead on the general five-year rule, RSMo 516.120, and for a child the five years don't start until 21, under RSMo 516.170. So the plain answer for anyone who was a minor there: file by 26. The five years also don't start until the harm is, in the statute's words, "capable of ascertainment" (RSMo 516.100), and that gets argued case by case.

That is why the quiz asks two age questions. A child at CenterPointe under Acadia was born in 2004 or later, so if you were under 18 there, the company's clock doesn't even start until you turn 21 and runs to 26: you are inside this year, and for years yet, on both clocks. Born before 2004, you were an adult there after the takeover, and the five years run without the wait to 21: anything since about September 2021 is the window a lawyer needs to look at, and Acadia has only owned the hospitals since the end of that year. A patient in 2024 has until 2029 on the calendar alone. The born-in-2000 question is still asked because it tells the person reading your answers which clock you are on, and whether it is worth asking about the years before Acadia. Don't do this math by yourself. Answer the questions and let someone who does it every day read your dates.

Since August 28, 2025, Missouri also says a nondisclosure agreement in a childhood sexual abuse case is void and cannot be enforced. If someone had you, or your parents, sign something on the way out, it does not close this.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told anyone, or you told a nurse and it went in a chart and nowhere else. The 2024 Columbia report describes a report that reached the risk manager three days late.
You were sedated, on a 96-hour hold, or so medicated you weren't sure what was real. The January 2025 report is about a patient on a 96-hour hold, and her report got a police report and a forensic exam.
It was another patient. You are not blaming them. You are asking who was supposed to be watching, and the Boone County petition asked the same thing.
The lawsuit you read about is over. It ended on one plaintiff's own dismissal; it decided nothing about anybody else's claim, and the window is open.
You were at St. Charles, and everything with a case number happened in Columbia. Same company since 2022, and the St. Charles inspection report is on this page. Say which hospital.
You live in Illinois or Kansas now. St. Charles is right across the river from Illinois anyway. The claim lives in Missouri, wherever you sleep tonight.

Facilities covered

Both hospitals, from December 31, 2021 forward; before that date a different company owned CenterPointe and the record on this page does not reach it. In St. Charles that's CenterPointe Hospital at 4801 Weldon Spring Parkway, St. Charles, Missouri 63304, the bigger of the two at 150 beds: adult and senior inpatient units, detox, residential substance-use treatment, the adolescent unit that operated in 2024, plus the outpatient programs and any transport in Acadia's charge. In Columbia it's CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia, 1201 International Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65202, 80 beds, where the child and adolescent program is called Stepping Stones and there are adult and senior units, inpatient detox and outpatient programs as well. The company's own page, /acadia-healthcare-missouri-survivors, covers all three of Acadia's Missouri hospitals. Lakeland in Springfield, the one whose record has a conviction in it, has its own at /lakeland-behavioral-health-survivors. A CenterPointe outpatient clinic instead, or some other psychiatric hospital in Missouri, Illinois or Kansas? Still works. Answer the questions and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue CenterPointe Hospital?

One former Columbia patient did, in a petition filed in Boone County Circuit Court on March 25, 2025 that named CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia LLC and Acadia Healthcare Company; she dismissed it herself, with prejudice, on July 8, 2026, after fifteen months. Whether you can turns on which hospital, how old you were, and when, which is what the questions above sort out. A lawyer gives you the real answer, for free.

What happened to the CenterPointe Hospital lawsuit?

It's over. The petition went in on March 25, 2025 in Boone County; it alleged another patient sexually assaulted her in August 2024 and nobody was supervising. Acadia tried to get out on jurisdiction and lost, August 2025. Discovery got compelled against Acadia in February 2026. Trial was on the calendar for February 2027. And then, July 8, 2026, the plaintiff dismissed her own case, voluntarily, with prejudice. Why? The docket doesn't say. No court ruled on the merits. It closed her case and nobody else's.

Who owns CenterPointe Hospital in St. Charles and Columbia?

Acadia Healthcare. It bought CenterPointe Behavioral Health System on December 31, 2021, $139 million in cash, and has owned the hospitals since. Somebody else owned them before that, which is the whole reason every question on this page says "2022 or later." Acadia also owns Lakeland Behavioral Health in Springfield, and the three hospitals share one company page here.

How long do I have? The Missouri statute of limitations for sexual abuse

Short version. Against the person who did it, until ten years past your 21st birthday under RSMo 537.046, or three years from the day you connected the harm to it if that comes later. Against the hospital or Acadia, the Missouri Supreme Court has said the general five-year rule applies, tolled to 21 for a child, so 26, and starting only when the damage was capable of ascertainment. An adult patient gets the five years from that point. Two clocks, so a lawyer reads your dates.

How much does a sexual abuse lawyer cost?

Nothing. Every case is on contingency: the lawyer gets paid out of what's recovered, and only then. Nothing recovered, nothing owed. The call is free and so is the review.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

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