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SEC Company Response from PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC (CIK 0000829608) — Aug 31, 2005

PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC (CIK 0000829608)
Date: Aug. 31, 2005 · CIK: 0000829608 · Accession: 0000950144-05-009235

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File numbers found in text: 333-127085

Date
August 31, 2005
Author
/s/ Christopher L. Howard
Form
CORRESP
Company
PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC (CIK 0000829608)

Letter

August 31, 2005 VIA EDGAR/COURTESY COPY VIA FACSIMILE Albert C. Lee, Esq. Division of Corporate Finance Securities and Exchange Commission 450 Fifth Street, N.W. Mail Stop 6010 Washington, D.C. 20549

Re: Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-3 File Number 333-127085

Dear Mr. Lee:

On behalf of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (the "Company"), attached as Schedule I is the Company's response to the comment included in the staff's letter, dated August 10, 2005, regarding the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-3. The response in Schedule I is keyed to your comment in the comment letter, which is repeated and underlined in Schedule I for convenience of reference.

Please contact the undersigned at (615) 312-5700 or John Faldetta at (615) 850-8875 if you have any questions regarding the Company's response.

Very truly yours,
/s/ Christopher L. Howard

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               [LETTERHEAD OF WALLER LANSDEN DORTCH & DAVIS, PLLC]

                                 August 31, 2005

VIA EDGAR/COURTESY COPY VIA FACSIMILE

Albert C. Lee, Esq.
Division of Corporate Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Mail Stop 6010
Washington, D.C. 20549

                  Re:    Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.
                         Registration Statement on Form S-3
                         File Number 333-127085

Dear Mr. Lee:

         On behalf of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (the "Company"), attached as
Schedule I is the Company's response to the comment included in the staff's
letter, dated August 10, 2005, regarding the above-referenced Registration
Statement on Form S-3. The response in Schedule I is keyed to your comment in
the comment letter, which is repeated and underlined in Schedule I for
convenience of reference.

         Please contact the undersigned at (615) 312-5700 or John Faldetta at
(615) 850-8875 if you have any questions regarding the Company's response.

                                                 Very truly yours,

                                                 /s/ Christopher L. Howard

cc:   Mr. Joey A. Jacobs
      Mr. Brent Turner
      Mr. Jack E. Polson
      James H. Nixon, III, Esq.
      John J. Faldetta, Jr., Esq.

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                                                                      SCHEDULE I

                           PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS, INC.
                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3
                               FILE NO. 333-127085

COMMENT 1: We note the filing does not include the signature of your principal
financial officer. Please include this signature in your amended Form S-3. If
Jack E. Polson serves in this capacity, his signature should be captioned as
such in your amended filing. See Instructions 1 and 2 to the Signatures section
of Form S-3.

RESPONSE 1: Jack E. Polson, the Company's Chief Accounting Officer, serves as
the Company's principal financial officer and his signature is captioned as such
in the Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3.

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