President & CEO Jessica Young Named as NBJ 2022 Most Admired CEO

FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE – President & CEO Jessica Young, Esq., CCHP-A, was named on Monday, December 5th, 2022 by Nashville Business Journal (NBJ) as a 2022 Most Admired CEO. NBJ solicited nominations from the public, and nominees then voted on one another by category.

Jessica has led Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. (ACH) for four years. She has grown the business more than 33% over the last 9 months, maintained a 74% full-time employee retention rate, and maintained a 95% client retention rate. Other notable accomplishments in her career include:

2022 & 2021: Super Lawyers: Illinois Rising Stars honoree;

2021: Nashville Business Journal’s Newcomer of the Year: Health Care Innovation;

2020: ACH’s PIG (Particularly Important Goal) Award (for designing and executing a program which saved the company over $400,000 in its first year);

2020: Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards honoree by Corporate Counsel in the Leadership Awards: Innovative Leadership category;

2020: Creve Coeur Club’s Nova Award;

2019: Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Ethics;

2019: Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce & WEEK 25’s 25 Women in Leadership;

2018: ACH’s PIC (Professionalism-Integrity-Commitment) Award (highest award in the company; voted on by peers);

2017: iBi Magazine’s 40 Leaders Under 40.

Jessica’s advice for future winners is, “Swallow the frog: to do what you hate, and do it first thing in the morning. I can still get overwhelmed by my to-do list each day. To solve this, my grandfather encouraged me to get in the habit of doing my hardest, most important thing first each day. It took me a long time to come to terms with the reality that while I have hundreds of frogs, I can only pick one. So on days when it seems impossible to pick only one frog, I swallow the biggest, fattest frog first.”

ACH is the nation’s largest jail health care provider. Headquartered in Tennessee, they endeavor to make a difficult time in their patient’s lives easier.