Vets Recover hosts Grand Opening in Mobile, Alabama

On April 17, 2024, Vets Recover hosted leaders, community members, and veterans from all over Alabama at the grand opening of their new treatment center in Mobile. This 34-bed inpatient center will serve the service members, veterans, and their families in need of substance use treatment, as well as serve as a community center and gathering space for those in recovery.

John Kilpatrick, the founder and CEO of Vets Recover, spoke of his vision for the facility, which he was inspired to build following his own experience as a veteran in active recovery:

This building here, it’s a treatment center…Nobody’s going to get saved in this building. We’re going to stop the bleeding, we’re going to restore the breathing, we’re going to get them back to life, but they’re going to get well in this community. This community is where we’re going to heal.

Other honored guests included Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth; Rear Admiral Kent Davis, Commissioner – Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs; Mobile County Commission President Randall Dueitt; Joe Snowden, City of Mobile Executive Director, Administrative Services and Military Liaison; and Mobile City Councilman William Carroll.

During the program, which included a performance from the McGill-Toolen Chamber Singers and a presentation of the colors by Satsuma High School JROTC Color Guard, speakers spoke of the positive impact this will have throughout Alabama and neighboring states and celebrated the hard work that it took to get the facility open.

For more information on Vets Recover, visit their website here.

For more information on the opening itself, visit here, here, or here.