Kiara Powers

Review of Connecticut Children's Medical...

The staff is friendly, especially the techs in psy...

The staff is friendly, especially the techs in psych. The wing is rather small and when there's an overflow of patients they either have to sit in the hall inside the unit or on one of the two or three beds outside the unit. I've seen reviews mentioning children having to wait to get a bed in a behavioral hospital and giving a bad review for that, but the staff has no control over that. I do agree it's rather boring having to wait to be admitted, so I think someone should invest in finding something more for patients to do-- it's a psych ward, being bored doesn't help with behavioral issues. Techs should get more respect from their superiors, they know the patient best so therefore they know what's best for the patient. I understand there's many rules and regulations in place about what patients can and can't do and I understand that's due to every patient's problems proving different while interacting and there's probably a lawsuit waiting to happen if patients interact. Techs know their patients best and most behavioral hospitals know the benefit of patients interacting with other patients or at least with staff, so techs are bound to feel some of their patients feel lonely and would benefit from socialization. The social workers or psychiatrists or whoever interacts with a patient once or maybe twice are alright. The techs are the gold of patient care, they're the only thing keeping the psych unit from falling apart.