Shodair

Shodair cares for patients, families and employees. It's hard work and we are all lucky there is a place like this here.

I cannot say enough about Shodair Children s Hospital. This place is absolutely amazing!! The staff is awesome and their mission is incredible. Anyone who has a child that may be struggling mentally or emotionally, rest assured they will be in great hands here at Shodair.

Please don t send your kids here for outpatient therapy! I brought my 7 year old here to help her and also to help me help her with anger and emotions. Her therapist called CPS after 3 sessions! I understand that they are mandatory reporters but The claims were utterly ridiculous and she would have known this had she investigated just a little bit. Even just asking my daughter about it more probably would have cleared it up. I confronted her and asked nicely if it was her and she said she can t tell me anything. I also asked her to talk to me about my daughter and what she thinks and what is going on and she refused. So I pulled my daughter from the therapy sessions because a therapist that doesn t work with the parents and instantly calls CPS like it s no big deal, is a terrible therapist! My daughter then confirmed that it was indeed the therapist who called CPS and that she said she would call CPS again if I took her out of therapy! Avoid the therapist named Bethany! She can call CPS again if she wants but my husband and I are excellent parents. We would never hurt our kids. CPS concluded it was a bogus claim the first time. Anyone that knows us knows we are loving, caring parents, which is why we put our daughter in therapy in the first place. The only thing this place did was call CPS.

Shodair saved my life. The inpatient and outpatient staff is amazing

Great place to work, and takes good care od the kids and helps them with mental health needs

Shodair saved my daughter's life and gave her the right meds after a year of the wrong ones. She is now excelling. Their residential program was excellent and got her on track. Thank you!!!

This place has no idea how to evaluate or care for children.

So i was a patient admitted at the end of August 2020 and left at the end of October 2020. This place is a giant mix. One big thing is who you're here with. For me i met some of the coolest people i know and we are still friends I wouldn't trade them for anything, but it is also a treatment center so no it isn't fun. I spent most of my time on Glacier (i was in Acute for the first 5 days where i then got sent up to Glacier). Glacier has some of the best MHTs who are obviously real people who just want to help. Three in particular stick out but for privacy i will use only the first 2 letters of their names. LE was such a sweet lady (who still looks 24 at the oldest, you go girl) she was the first person who bothered to so an in depth check in and really helped me get comfortable (she also talked about clasic rock and music with me a lot). Then there was WY and this guy was absolutely hilariour and I absolutely loved every conversation i had with him. He could make me laugh and just take my mind off of anything within minutes he was a big help. Then SA, you weren't there for my whole stay but you instantly skyrocketed up to the top three. I still treasure all that extra time you put in to sitting up and talking to me outside of my room and you were one of the people i honestly felt like i could talk to. Like literally i would be stressed everynight before bed and you would always be there to talk to me and we would talk about some of the most random stuff. I should also mention my therapist JA he was so cool and he honestly just understood me in a way that no one ever seems to. I have had a few times that i have almost returned but so far I haven't. I felt like i needed to make this review because when i pulled up into the parking lot i had been reading the reviews and it honestly isn't as bad as a lot of them make it out to be. (It is still a treatment facility so it isn't the funnest time) I feel like most of the staff honestly cares and are some of the friendliest people (i wish I could mention more of you like RY, MA, BR, KA and others. But if you try to make the most of your time here it can honestly help you.

P.s blue is the best doggo

This placed helped me so much, I loved it the food wasnt great but the nurses were so nice and supportive, and the therapists and doctors were just great. Thank You Shodair!!!!

I definitely would never come back to this place. Two years ago I was on a one on one because I was suicidal and I ran away with one of my friends by a fire alarm. She was hit and killed by a vehicle and I was locked in a room for 48hours alone after. Then sent to another hospital. They handled it all super bad(with the exception of two staff members). We were not the first to run away so they should ve fixed the issue; or we would ve been safe.

Many years ago, when I was employed as a substitute teacher at their previous location, the primary job qualification was willingness to respond to Dr. Armstrong alerts, meaning yet another adolescent had lost it. We had to safely surround and restrain the individual until a doctor arrived to inject a sedative. The worst part, imho, was that it became glaringly clear that they were raking in lots of education $$$ under the guise of providing educational services to kids not exactly in the best frame of mind to benefit from being made to fill out boring social studies and other workbooks six hours a day, and I still wonder how much more money they made with their heavy-handed medications dosing after, in some cases, essentially driving kids further over the edge. My feeling was that they didn t appear able to differentiate between those whose behaviors could only be managed with strong psychotropic medications and those who seriously just needed a caring soul to help them adjust to traumas and etc. Either that or they just didn t care, on account of they had a business to run. Personally, I would have been better off if I hadn t stopped by and read so many reviews that prompted me to write this.