Who We Are

Our fully-licensed, caring and compassionate staff are passionate about helping people to successfully recover from alcohol and drug addiction. ARC is dedicated to changing the way the world views treatment by providing all levels of care including medical detoxification, inpatient residential treatment, PHP, IOP, and MAT.

Our approach is unique and our dedication to excellence is paramount in our ideologies.

Our leadership team:

Michael Zipprich

Michael Zipprich

Founder

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Michael Zipprich is a real estate/development executive with a 40-year career in recognizing opportunity and responding to the need-for- demand. In 2014, he acknowledged that the opioid crisis was creating a substantial shortage of treatment facilities and beds. Throughout 2014-2016, Michael put extensive research into evaluating the addiction industry and identified market places to start America’s Rehab Campuses. The company was formed and the first campus with 207 beds was opened in Tucson, Arizona on December 2016.

Michelle Shetler

Michelle Shetler

Corporate Chief Operating Officer

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Michelle Shetler, has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Human Resources. Michelle has worked both in behavioral health Operations and Human Resources for approximately 20 years. Michelle’s recent focus has been in acute medical, residential treatment and establishing cultural oriented continuum of care systems. Mrs. Shetler has been instrumental in strategic marketing, services, and leadership development. Her primary focus has been acquisitions and start-ups, with an expertise in State and Joint Commission policy and procedure and licensure certification.

Daryl Miller

Daryl Miller

Chief Financial Officer

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Born and educated in England, Daryl emigrated to the USA in 1987. Daryl’s career in healthcare began as Finance Director for a Skilled Nursing Facility and has grown from there. In 2008, he founded a Behavioral Health management group that employed key licensed professionals in their field to provide treatment, both in a clinic and throughout nursing care establishments in Arizona. Prior to ARC, Daryl was the Controller for the National Kidney Foundation. Daryl values the diversity of expertise in the ARC community, where he has the opportunity to apply his passion for patient care and advocacy.

Franklyn Jeans

Franklyn Jeans

Chief Executive Officer

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Chief Executive Officer Franklyn Jeans is a Member of Arizona Rehab Campus’ parent company, Americas Rehab Campuses, LLC, and serves as its General Counsel. He joined the ARC companies in 2019. In addition to practicing law in Arizona, Nevada and California, Mr. Jeans has served as CEO of numerous businesses during his 60+ year career including companies involved in communications, fermented malt beverages, industrial maintenance, banking, real estate, natural resource development and agriculture.

Dr. Alsbiei Talal

Dr. Alsbiei Talal

Medical Director

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Dr. Alsbiei Talal board certified in Onternal Medicine, I grew up in Damascus Syria, after graduating high school in Damascus, I attended Lodz university medical school in Lodz Poland, after graduation I completed my first Internal medicine residency at Jonscher’s hospital, soon after I came to the US in 1996 and after completing my US exams I received my ECFMG certificate, soon after I completed a year of research at Hines VA hospital “functional recovery and Neuroanatomical plasticity middle cerebral artery occlusion and IN-1 antibody treatment in the adult rat” published in Annals of Neurology 19 February 2002.

In 2004 I completed my residency program in Internal Medicine at both Loyola University Medical Center and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

Since then I’ve been working as a primary care physician and consultant hospitalist. At the same time I practice as an inpatient rehab MD at St Mary’s Hospital and manage patients at a behavioral unit.

Diana Verdugo

Diana Verdugo

Corporate Medical Administrator / Corporate Director of Nursing / FNP-C

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Diana Verdugo, is a graduate of Grand Canyon University. She has worked in the medical field in Southern Arizona for the past 20 years in community health, hospital and clinic settings. Since moving to Tucson in 2015, Diana has practiced as a primary care provider for the behavioral health and substance abuse population. Together, with the team at America’s Rehab Campuses, her goal is to provide quality care medical detox services to clients in a non-judgmental, healing environment.

Azucena Silva-Lara

Azucena Silva-Lara

Corporate Admissions Director / Operations Director Tucson

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My name is Azucena Lara-Silva, I was born and raised in Tucson, Az. I currently work at Americas Rehab Campus, my role at ARC is Corporate Admissions Director/Operations Director Tucson. I have over 15 years’ experience in behavioral health. I enjoy using my skills to help individuals with substance abuse issues to get started on the road to recovery. I believe patient care should be our top priority.

Mikayla Fitzgerald

Mikayla Fitzgerald

Marketing Director

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I started working with America’s Rehab Campuses in August of 2020. Over these past 2 years I have grown tremendously as a person and just started the beginning of this year as the marketing director for ARC. What I have learned and how my passions have aligned with what I do is such a blessing. Being able to be a part of something that is bigger than yourself is always so impactful and working for ARC has allowed me to combine both my passion for being creative as well as my passion for helping others. I am a Jesus lover and when I am not working you can find me with my family and friends, reading a book, or indulging in a puzzle. My guilty pleasure is any type of firefighting tv show, I know it is nothing like real life, but I love it. I am so thankful to all the opportunities ARC has presented me with, they pour into not only our clients but the staff as well and that is hard to come by these days.

Chantelle Figueroa

Chantelle Figueroa

Clinical Director

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Tucson local Chantelle Figueroa serves her community as Clinical Director at ARC. Chantelle has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of Arizona, Masters of Addiction Counseling from Grand Canyon University, and is a licensed Substance Abuse Counselor in the state of Arizona. Her professional and educational experience includes conducting research in the Poverty in Tucson Project through the Sociology Department at University of Arizona, working as a Liaison for youth without housing, being of service in recovery community support groups, prevention and harm-reduction, and providing therapeutic services in both residential and outpatient settings.

As a person in recovery and Clinical Director at the ARC, Chantelle has turned her passion for therapeutic work and built a career around meeting the individual needs of clients through empowerment. Her experience has provided her the opportunity to work with at-risk communities, diverse populations, and persons struggling with substance use, providing both an individual and group approach. Chantelle believes every person is worthy of recovery and achieving goals, and dedicates herself to providing the utmost support to clients at every step of their journey.

Magaly Arevalo

Magaly Arevalo

Director of Human Resources

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Magaly Arevalo is the Director of Human Resources and Recruitment for Arizona Rehab Campus. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2014, where she then started her career in behavioral health at Palo Verde Behavioral Health Hospital. She began working at Arizona Rehab campus in April 2017, where she has been successful in her professional growth. She imbodies the belief that she is always searching for way to improve and strives to do so on a daily basis. She is passionate about her job, as well as traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Vance Johnson

Vance Johnson

Former NFL Wide Receiver and Ambassador for America's Rehab Campuses

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Vance Johnson is a former wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, having played with the team from 1985 to 1995. At the height of his career, Vance was in the throes of an addiction to alcohol and various recreational drugs. This continued for decades, and his experience even led him into a 28-day, medically induced coma. But even after this harrowing ordeal, it would be a long time before Vance achieved long-term sobriety.

Today, Vance is drug and alcohol free and encouraging others to get sober. As a Recovery Ambassador for America’s Rehab Campuses, Vance participates in speaking engagements across the country, where he recounts his struggles and offers hope that truly anyone can get sober.

Other members of the ARC team include:

Patients, clients and their families — Your passion to improve your quality of life is the backbone of our practice
Rehabilitation care coordinators are specialized nurses that will direct your treatment from the time you arrive to the time you go out into the world as a stronger, healthy and sober person.
Rehabilitation nurses ensure that the skills you learn in therapy and treatment become habit and lifestyle
Registered dietitians and chefs plan a healthy diet and advise you on a nutrition path to keep you healthy
Medical social workers provide emotional support, identify economic resources and community agencies and help you make arrangements to leave the hospital and find follow-up care.
Vocational case coordinators help you build a new foundation for your professional life after your journey through the ARC – key component to staying sober.

Meet our Ambassador

NFL Wide Receiver for the Denver Broncos and University of Arizona Wildcats.

Learn more and see Vance's Story