Central Florida Behavioral Hospital

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Whistle Blower1

My question is who the f*** would even give this place one star? It was living hell on earth. It disgusts me that I see this place expanding into two stories. More lives to ruin. A person named Alex on here summed it up very well. Ill tell my prespectiv, but it really is as bad as we say. Regardless of not being suicidal or a threat to society, I was forced here against my will of my parents and the admissions staff. My last encounter with this place was about 6 years ago. Every day after since then im dealing with the trauma this place put me through. It was not a mental rehabilitation hospital. Central Florida Behavioural Center is a prison that prescribes drugs. Everything about this place is a joke. First things first, your rights are revoked from you at entry. Personal items, cell phones, keys, ect. Are confiscated. I have a couple shoes and shorts destroyed because they cut the strings off of them. I remember feeling that my life was ending and i was walking into hell. Fear, depression, anxiety, were the first emotions I experienced. You have no decisions. You are escorted throughout the facility by staff like owned propriety. You are stripped down with your boobies, peni*, and recital cavity exposed for a staff and doctor to examine you. I was violated and feel molested after that experience. Bedrooms are small, youll share a room with a stranger. The rooms are enough to make anyone go insane. The beds are basically a pad on top of a wooden rectangle with a cheap hospital blanket. The windows have a blurred film on them so you cant see anything outside. Sleeping is extremely uncomfortable. The beds are .. bad as you can imagine. Nurses enter your room at night every 15 minutes waking you up by the creek of the door with the bright hallway lights shining in your face. After a sleepless night you are waken up once again at 6am and they check you vital signs. This is where I got to witness all the other loons i was sharing this department with. Prison style, you are escorted in single file lines to the cafeteria for breakfast. During the say your isolated from the rest of the world in a small family room section watching whatever they provide to you on the televisions. They have "group therapy" sessions several times a day. You sit in a room with the other patients and they discus youe thoughts and feelings ect. I found these therapys worthless and a joke. I remember witnessing mental outbursts by some of the people here. Ive witnessed staff restrain youth as young as 5 years old to the floor and given a sleeping shot in the butt. The whole experience of the facility was traumatizing and has added to the problems i have today. This place is complete fraud and no one should ever waist your money here. This is not the place to be with minimal problems. You will pile on more issues with yourself coming to this place. It really is nothing other than all hell on earth. A prison thatll make you phyco. This places most disgusting staff. Rodney Leo Travis Molesters. Perverts, ect.

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L G

My 25 year old son is currently there for over a week now. He was transferred from La Amistad where he was there for a month then transferred to this he** hole with no one telling me he arrived for days even though he signed a release. I had to look on my insurance notification to find out. These two facilities are owned by the same person and sister corporations. This is just a money scam at the expense of other human beings mental heath. Dr Mendez has not once called me even after my son begging him to and me constantly calling Steven who I spoke to twice. He finally gave me the number to Tim a nursing supervisor. They have my son on a cocktail of the wrong medications. I have repeatedly told all of them what he should be on. I also asked for any other doctor but Mendez as he feels it is not important to get a family history and loved ones involved. I call the unit floor and the phone just rings and rings. There is no communication and this has to be the worst run facility I have ever encountered. If they care about the patient they would get family involved and yes my son did sign a release. He was crying this morning on the phone because Dr Mendez keeps threatening him with discharge rather than getting him on the correct medication and calling me for treatment and discharge plans. I am considering getting an attorney and having him moved to a place that really cares and WANTS the patient to get better. I will be happy to post later if this situation changes as my family and I are living a nightmare. I would give zero stars!!! Keep your loved ones out of here. Update....This situation worsens as they refuse to put him on the correct kidney medication that he was somehow taken off along the mental health roller coaster. They are releasing him today and I tried to give them the name and dose of correct medicine and phone number for them to call his pharmacy and verify what he has been on for 15 years. The nurse Amanda called me with a rude attitude which seems to be the norm there. I simple verification at the pharmacy will prove he is on the wrong medication and dosing. Like they stated they are not Nephrologists. The prudent thing to do is to make sure he leaves with all proper medication to ensure his physical and mental health. They are too lazy to call family members or get anyone involved in the care of the patient. Please do not send your loved ones to this place. I will now take my son to an out patient doctor. The techs who watch over visitation are rude and it is quite obvious everyone there except a nurse named Sheeda hates their job. Beware of hospitals like Central Florida Behavioral and La Amistad that make it a practice to keep the family in the dark as they experiment on your loved ones like guinea pigs and line their pockets with as much insurance money as they can....

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Alex

Im only giving this place one star because the nurses in my unit were friendly and helped me get out faster, other than that, this place is practically prison. I was forced here against my will, apparently to them I was suicidal even though I wasnt and spent two and a half days and two nights in a very traumatizing setting. They take all of your belongings with you except the clothes on your back until you are forced to do a strip search in front of doctors. There is hardly any therapy, you meet with a psychiatrist for a few minutes and they prescribe you medication, no one else really talks to you and the group therapy youre forced to attend is also a joke. Your room is like a jail cell that you share with one other person, hard wood beds, a fogged up window so you cant see out of it, you must go to bed at 10:00 pm every night and youre awoken every 20 or so minutes by nurses coming into your room, then youre awoken again in the middle of the night to have your vitals taken. You have a strict schedule and cant do anything outside of it, theres only two phones in the common room and theyre taken up practically 24/7 so good luck trying to find time to call your loved ones. Your activities are limited to coloring, doing puzzles, writing in a notebook and watching whatever they have on TV until your meals and group therapy sessions, then you go to bed and repeat the next morning. I was given one hospital gown and a pair of socks to change into and that was all I had for nearly 3 days; I was nauseous and vomiting all over myself for the first day and asked for something to help with the nausea and received nothing. I had to practically beg the doctors to let me out because I had to attend work and couldnt miss more days and they just kept telling me "The psychiatrist decides on when you leave". I finally got to leave on a Wednesday afternoon after being admitted that Monday and I will tell you that being at this hospital was one of the most traumatic experiences of my entire life AND they charge $800 per night for you to basically receive no treatment, no medication (at least I received nothing) and basically no help, they charge you over $2,000 to sit and stare at a wall. This hospital might be fine for someone who has nowhere else to go and suffer from deep, dark mental problems but this is NOT the place for someone who is just feeling a little depressed and needs counseling, they will treat you like an animal. After being here, I cant even imagine anything else as equally terrifying, it really made me lose all trust in people and not ever want to seek treatment for mental health or therapy ever again for fear that Ill be sent back here, or to a hospital even worse. Terrible, terrible place.