Ben Fox
Co-Owner | Co-Founder | Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ben Fox, Co-Founder and CEO of Legacy Healing Center, leads with the rare combination of strategic vision and lived experience. With 14 years in recovery, he brings authenticity, humility, and a deep understanding of the courage it takes to seek help. His leadership has shaped Legacy into a place grounded in trust, compassion, and evidence-based excellence across New Jersey.
Leadership Rooted in Lived Experience
Ben’s personal journey guides the culture he cultivates, one defined by dignity, meaningful support, and the belief that every person deserves a genuine chance at rebuilding their life.
Shaping Legacy’s East Coast Identity
In New Jersey, Ben has focused on creating programs that reflect the region’s unique needs: privacy, clinical strength, and individualized pathways to long-term healing.
Driving Innovation with Integrity
He champions growth that prioritizes client care above all else, ensuring every service offered in New Jersey aligns with Legacy’s high standards.
Ben’s mission remains consistent: to create a healing environment where clinical excellence meets human connection. Through his guidance, Legacy’s New Jersey center stands as a trusted place for recovery, renewal, and transformation.
Marc Effron
Co-Owner | Co-Founder | Chief Operations Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer
Marc Effron, Co-Founder and COO of Legacy Healing Center, blends business leadership, personal recovery, and a philosophy rooted in accountability and heart. His background in finance and behavioral health, paired with years of sobriety, helped build Legacy’s New Jersey presence into a highly respected treatment resource for individuals and families across the region.
A Leader Who Understands the Journey
Marc’s own recovery shapes the empathy, ethics, and family-centered values that drive New Jersey’s programs and the staff who deliver them.
Operational Excellence with a Human Touch
His approach combines structure with empowerment. In New Jersey, he ensures clients receive clinically sound care while also gaining the tools to rebuild their confidence and identity.
Community Impact Beyond the Facility
Through motivational speaking, mentorship, and The Marc Effron Foundation, he supports ongoing recovery within the wider East Coast community.
Marc’s vision continues to influence every aspect of Legacy Healing Center in New Jersey, from day-to-day operations to long-term program development, building a place where people can begin again with clarity, support, and purpose.
Ash Bhatt, M.D., M.R.O., FASAM
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Ash Bhatt, Legacy Healing Center’s Chief Medical Officer, brings exceptional clinical expertise to New Jersey’s treatment programs. A quintuple board-certified physician specializing across addiction medicine, psychiatry, brain injury medicine, and preventive medicine, he offers unmatched medical insight for complex dual-diagnosis and co-occurring cases.
Comprehensive Medical Leadership
Dr. Bhatt has overseen emergency psychiatric units, detox programs, inpatient treatment, and outpatient systems, giving him a uniquely wide-ranging understanding of behavioral healthcare.
Expertise in Neurological + Psychiatric Complexity
As a Fellow of ASAM, Certified Medical Review Officer, and Academy Certified Brain Injury Specialist, he addresses disorders across mood, cognition, trauma, addiction, and neuropsychiatry with precision.
Setting a High Standard for New Jersey
His administrative experience with JCAHO, DCF, and AHCA ensures Legacy’s New Jersey operations exceed clinical and regulatory expectations.
In New Jersey, Dr. Bhatt’s leadership anchors Legacy Healing Center’s reputation for safe, ethical, evidence-based medical care, helping clients restore stability, health, and long-term recovery.
