Newport News Behavioral Health

Reviews 7

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Crusty Sock Gaming

*I was in the ACUTE facility last year* Food sucked and the people who worked there seemed extremely depressed. The tall black guy who has a little weight on him was great. I didnt really interact with anyone else. He helped with a lot of things and its what kept me going. When I got my first ever dosage of antidepressants and they werent working well because it was my first dosage he was there for me. He cared a lot or at least seemed to. The beds werent the most comfortable and the soap wasnt high quality and the showers didnt get hot but it didnt really matter to me. It wouldve helped some people if they were there to make things more comfortable. It was nice knowing that there wasnt really much to hurt yourself with except maybe hiding some coloring paper or scissors in your pants or something but I didnt really feel like it. I felt secluded but safe. A lot of people on here have been saying that their child lost a lot of weight being in the facility but there more than enough food to be full. It wasnt a buffet and then might not have been stuffed after eating but we werent starved like Jews. I wish that we were allowed to listen to music with earbuds if our parents gave us an MP3 player of some sort with no other ways to use it except for music. Anything more than that and people would probably be texting or something trying to get out. Most people there dont care about getting better and that is the problem. The only issue wasnt getting help, it was wanting it. I remember on my first few days after I had recovered from my overdose I said "I want to want to be happy so I wouldnt dissapoint people." I couldnt want to live but I wanted to want to live. This place gets 4 starts but they need to make the place feel less like a pillow room for serial killers and make everyone want to get help instead of everyone feeling like they are forced to be there. (While we didnt have a choice, we are able to want to be there if theres enough to get our attention and make us want it. I cant stress how much yall need to get the patients to want help and to make sure that they arent taking progress.)

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Niamh Payson

I was hospitalized here for about a week and a half to two weeks last year. I really wanted to get better but this place made me feel so worthless and disgusting. I had to get my blood drawn 3 times because the doctors couldnt do it properly. The second time it had to be done, the doctor doing it wouldnt let me sit down and instead had me stand - I passed out and hit my head on the desk and it resulted in a concussion. For the rest of the day I was super dizzy and puking in a bucket. I wasnt given anything to help me feel better and one of the nurses even told me to get over it. I have high blood pressure and have a prescribed medication, yet they wouldnt give me that medication because they didnt believe I had hbp despite my parents bringing paperwork and a copy of the prescription. They never gave me shampoo for the time I was there despite everyone else having it; when I told them about it, they said there was "absolutely no more shampoo" and i just felt disgusting. No soap either. The food was atrocious and I would compare the meals to looking like something from prison. I didnt know what I was eating half the time. Counselors did nothing to the patients that were raising hell for others despite me and several others raising concerns - being put in there for an intention to commit suicide and having someone else there tell me that Im "worthless" and should "kill myself" didnt help me recover in the slightest, yet they did nothing. I doubt this place really cares about their younger patients. By all means, PLEASE find somewhere else for your child. Only two of the counselors genuinely cared but they werent there as often as others.

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Mike Amdusky

We were told a bed was being held for our son. When we got there we were told there was no bed, however they would check with the physician about making accomadations. We were told that the accomadations had been arranged pending a drug screening at a nearby medical facilty. After 3 more grueling hours the report and the medical physician indicated that our son was clear to be admitted to the Newport News Behavioral Center. At 10 pm we were told that there were no accommodations available because he needs outpatient care, not acute care, and we were turned away.He was assessed by several professionals who all agreed that he needs acute care, yet one physician at the facility denied him care and refused to see us in the waiting room as we were told he was in the office just behind administration at that time. Nothing is more important than our children and I certainly dont want to leave him in a facility that would put a child through that ordeal in a day.

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Demetria Higgins

This place is awful my daughter has been there for three weeks and is covered in spider bites as well as she has lost 10 pounds due to not being fed enough and the staff there treats them awful and has conversation with the children that the center is in financial distress and the drains in the showers are covered with nats and its just nasty and housekeeping is not doing its job. The kids get bon Barker products if the family doesnt bring in there personal stuff and have no clothes for the children

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The Nurses on the phone were awfully rude & refused to let me converse with my dear friend who is staying there. How rude.

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Lee A Lorberau

THIS IS NOT A PLACE YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO GO TO, FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR CHILD OUT OF THIS PLACE IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILD.

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Charles Wilson

Helping those who need help.

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