Cornerstone of Recovery
Cornerstone of Recovery Acquired by Bradford Health Services
Acquisition expands Bradford’s inpatient addiction treatment services into Tennessee Louisville, Tennessee (September 1, 2021) — Bradford Health Services, the Southeast’s largest provider of addiction treatment programs, today announced the expansion of their portfolio with the acquisition of Cornerstone of Recovery, a Tennessee-based substance use disorder treatment provider. Founded in 1989, Cornerstone of Recovery is the largest…
Read MoreStepping Stone therapist Denicia Lowe keeps what she has by giving it away
On the other side of her addiction, Denicia Lowe remembers the staggering beauty of her childhood. Now a therapist at Stepping Stone to Recovery, Denicia was born in the East Tennessee community of Harriman, but her parents moved the family to the East African country of Kenya for missionary work when she was 6. There,…
Read MoreRetiring Fitness Coordinator Tracey Graves reflects on building a program from scratch
Five laps around the upper parking lot of the Cornerstone campus makes up a mile. Tracey Graves, the long-time Fitness Coordinator at Cornerstone of Recovery who retires this week, knows that well. In the beginning of her 13-year tenure with the drug and alcohol treatment facility, it was one of many methods of her ingenuity…
Read MoreMeet the Family! As Cornerstone’s Executive Assistant, Beth Akers finds her purpose
Beth Akers never suffered from a drug or alcohol problem, and she was never a patient at Cornerstone of Recovery, but she found herself here just the same. As she wraps up her final week of employment as the executive assistant — mostly to Cornerstone CEO Steve McGrew, but also to the company’s Leadership Team…
Read MoreCongressman Tim Burchett lauds Cornerstone’s work with veterans
America’s veterans answered their country’s call for service, and their sacrifice demands service in return. Congressman Tim Burchett, who represents Tennessee’s Second District in the U.S. House of Representatives, knows that all too well. He recounted the experiences of his father, a World War 2 veteran who fought in the Pacific, and acknowledged the work…
Read MoreMEET THE FAMILY: From clerk to HR director, Jennifer Dacus helped Cornerstone grow
It seems like a lifetime ago that Jennifer Dacus, Director of Human Resources at Cornerstone of Recovery, started spending her Friday afternoons shredding paper. Back then, her last name was Amburgey. Cornerstone had only occupied a new 46-bed facility on Topside Road in Blount County’s Louisville community for a year (a facility that’s now home…
Read MoreProviding protection: Cornerstone offers COVID-19 vaccinations to its patients
Cornerstone of Recovery, East Tennessee’s premier drug and alcohol treatment center, is doing its part to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to a vulnerable population: its own patients. Health experts have warned since the pandemic began last year that addicts and alcoholics are particularly vulnerable populations to the virus, and last fall, researchers writing for the peer-reviewed…
Read MoreMEET THE FAMILY: Cornerstone’s financials are in good hands with Jamie Free
It didn’t take Jamie Free long to figure out that Cornerstone of Recovery is a different kind of business. The East Tennessee girl, who grew up in Knoxville’s Halls community, was a few weeks into her job as Controller for the drug and alcohol treatment center — a position from which she’s stepping down on…
Read MoreThe welcome wagon: Justin Poole is one of the first faces Cornerstone patients see
In 2001, Justin Poole had to get out of East Tennessee. Maybe he needed rehab, maybe he didn’t, but one thing the Reception Manager at Cornerstone of Recovery is certain of: If he had stayed in Sevier County, he was likely headed toward the same bitter ends it talks about in recovery literature. “I was…
Read MoreMEET THE FAMILY: Admissions Counselor Susie Silcox seizes life on the other side of addiction
It’s serendipitous, the way that Susie Silcox spends her days on the phone as an Admissions Counselor for Cornerstone of Recovery, a drug and alcohol treatment center near Knoxville, Tennessee. Each day, she takes calls from potential patients facing what they believe is the worst day of their lives. Their drug and alcohol use has…
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