Fremont Hospital

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Allison Medina

Im 14 years old , I thought it would be bad here . I was sent here in march , 2016. The nurses i had were great, i look at all these comments and disagree with a huge amount of them here and yelp. They usually checked your rooms alot in the night . I felt safe there , didnt have any problems with any other patients , actually made friends. I was there for 2 days , but the downside is ... my doctor didnt help me . Just ask me questions (regular questions like hearing voices whose voice, what do you think we can do to help) and i answered them . And i really did want to leave , but when they didnt do anything, its been what 2 months now . And i feel much more worse, but dont get me wrong i loved that place . Except the doctor i had discharged me way to early. Right when i got out i was on my way home and got some fast food (tasted delicious) and put in my earphones and thought about everything and i told my self everything is going to be okay. And i checked messages from friends etc . They didnt know where i was and were just scared. But i kept thinking. . What did i get out of this ? Friends that can relate to how i feel . Yea ... but i needed or NEED help . And later on i was at home and cried .. later on My mom talked to me like i was baby . Asking me if i needing anything i said im fine , she said how do you feel i said im good . And she would tell me i love you , dont do that to me again etc. I dont want to do that again to her cause she got in alot of arguments with people from there and also a crisis center. But i need help and they just didnt give me the help that i needed . And the visiting hours i liked . Only 45 minutes, so your family only has enough time to tell you they love you and ask you questions and not yell at you, but also some people dont get visitors and they dont want people to feel lonely cause no one visits them . I understand that fully . I hear voices, when i was there , i told my doctor i hear a mans voice , kind of raspy . I didnt know how to explain it . But since that .. all i hear is my OWN voice . Telling me things . I havent heard the man .. i only hear myself saying mean things and i put in my earphones and just try to ignore them . It works sometimes but not all the time. I also cried to much , and recently i can only cry in the night before i sleep . my cries are random . I feel more like i just dont care about anything . School ... i get sent out of classes alot now , referrals, called home . And i get yelled at(of course) And i just dont seem to care as much as i used to. And also the therapist. . They get annoyed very easily. I was only a level 1 , cause i never did anything in groups. . I just wish i got help , rather than just coping skills . . I guess it depends on the doctor you get. 4 star rating . Nurses 5. Doctors 0. friends(patients) 5. Therapist 0. Visiting hours 4. Help needed -10 fun +10

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Rosie Williams

I was a patient in both the adolescent units a couple of times in the past 2 years. The first time I went there I felt so lonely and I couldnt make any friends and I felt like even more of an outcast than I did in the outside world. The second time I went there I met so many amazing kids who I still talk to today. The staff are alright but they are not trained to handle patients the correct way. I remember I had a roommate who would not stop flipping crying and at first I felt bad for her but after 3 days I could not stand it any longer. The whole unit despised her and the staff did nothing about it. I told them I wanted a new room because I couldnt sleep at night and it took them forever to get me a new room. So I went to the other unit. But little did I know that unit was way worse than the unit I was previously in. In this new unit, people were getting booty juiced like crazy and I got PTSD from being in this unit. One of the patients who was also my roommate got restrained and booty juiced right in front of me. I was in bed sleeping and I was woken up by her screams and looked over to see grown men trying to pin her down on her bed. And they didnt even try to get me out of there so I wouldnt have to experience something so tragic. Its like they didnt even care about me. So I eventually told them to send me back to my previous unit. This time I didnt get the crying girl and I made friends with more people. I absolutely loved when we got to go downstairs to eat and go outside. We got movie nights and had a gym and got to watch TV. This place was kind of like a vacation away from reality but in no way did they help me. They just gave me more meds and didnt even tell me what the meds were for. I later found out that they prescribed meds for bipolarity and Im not bipolar. They just gave me those to help me sleep. Like wtf! The doctors were terrible. Overall I give this place a two because the kids were awesome but the care was horrible. And I am saying this from being to other messed up hospitals and being at this place multiple times. I would say to go to another hospital because this place only gives you a vacation. Not what a patient really needs.

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Paul Volk

Went here to visit a friend committed to their inpatient program. This place just feels like something that escaped the lunatic asylum shutdown of the late 1900s. The facilities were clean but very old and packed full of negativity, as opposed to a positive environment for people in mental crisis (if I was there longer than a few days Id need to be on some sort of medication too!). I understand that they are doing what they have to do but they are severely understaffed. The patients are treated somewhat fairly with the limited resources, but there is an overwhelming sense from the Psychiatrists that the patients are all crazy and need to be popping pills (which is definitely not an atmosphere to improve their condition). The goal of this place is to get patients in and out as quickly as possible while providing the minimum level of medical care possible, from overwhelmed Psychiatrists who if the patient is lucky spend 5-10 minutes a day with the patient. Oh and dont bother requesting a call from any of the docs because you wont get one, ever. Which is a testament to the complete lack of professionalism at this institution. The case manager was pleasant to talk to and was the only one who seemed to have anything under control but ultimately did not facilitate any sort of after treatment outside of looking up outpatient facilities, which could have been done by anyone by spending 30 minutes on Google and Yelp. In summary: Good quality of care? No. Blatantly Understaffed? Yes. Is that an excuse? Absolutely not. Avoid this place at all costs.