Mental Health

58 REAL-LEADERS.COM / FALL 2019 A NEW APPROACH TO RECOVERY: JOY By Kevin Edwards Noah Nordheimer is the founder and managing partner of Malibu-based All Points North (APN) Capital, a private equity firm that has invested more than $150 million into the behavioral health and addiction treatment sector over the past five years. He’s working to change the narrative and standard of care in behavioral health, wellness, and addiction treatment. His next endeavor is All Points North (APN) Lodge, a new kind of luxury wellness and medical resort nestled in the Colorado mountains. APN Lodge promises to be themost ambitious facility of its kind. WE HAVE A DIFFERENT APPROACH — GETTING OUR CLIENTS OFF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, BUT ALSO GUIDING THEM TO FIND MEANING AND PURPOSE IN THEIR LIVES.” NOAH NORDHEIMER Kevin Edwards: What attracted you to invest in behavioral health and addiction treatment? NoahNordheimer: This journey started with my own. The importance of mental health and addiction treatment hit me many years ago when I became addicted to pain medicine after back surgery. The addiction I dealt with as a young adult shaped me, and so did my road to wellness. I care about the space because I’ve been there. When I began to consider investments, I saw facilities coming up short. So I jumped in. Rather than approaching behavioral health and addiction treatment with the typical, “How do we help people while they’re within our four walls,” I asked, “What does it take to make someone well?” You strayed from the typical approach to behavioral health. What wasn’t working? It didn’t seem logical or beneficial. First, I looked at the silos of care. If patients needed multiple specialties and providers, why was there such distance and communication lags between them? Why not co-locate? Second, why were so many providers stopping short of comprehensive care? I saw loads of facilities saying, “We only do this for patients. You’ll need to find someone MENTAL HEALTH