Kat Granlund

Review of The Ridge Behavioral Health

DO NOT CHECK INTO OR ADMIT ANYONE TO THIS FACILITY...

DO NOT CHECK INTO OR ADMIT ANYONE TO THIS FACILITY!
This establishment should be shut down. The workers condescend the patients, treating them as if they were a waste of time and space.
The first night I was there, I woke up to a needle in my arm and a nurse yelling at me to sit up. She got blood on my bed; when I asked several people if I could have my sheets changed, nobody helped me.
The counseling sessions were more like kindergarten circles with the counselors expressing their presumptions about the patients and misdiagnosing them (even though they have absolutely no right to guess a patient's diagnoses before they see their psychiatrist).
Patients' conditions are discussed among the staff and from staff to other patients. No privacy.
Upon arriving, I was forced to strip in front of several people for safety precautions, which was horribly degrading. Why couldn't they have done it more privately? I am almost positive several men walked by during my check.
The psychiatrist showed no interest in even being there let alone helping a human being. Patients each got a total of about 5 minutes with the Doctor.
I was ridiculed for skipping a group session one time. Not scolded. Ridiculed. The counselor began mocking me and making fun of me for working on a project at the craft table rather than going to his pointless lecture which basically consisted of him telling us it was all our faults and that we needed a change of attitude. There were times he got so heated that I felt he was just a patient dressed in the facility uniform.
I felt as though I was in a movie, it was so surreal how awful it was there.
Not to mention that my 4 day stay cost my loved ones $2700 out of pocket because of the deductible on our insurance plan at the time.
Again, I say, this facility should be shut down.