Loma Linda University Behavioral Health Institute

Karen Hicks

They are good but they told me next time I need any help that it should just be for a visit. How can I visit them with the pandemic. Jeez the person that told me that her name started with J. A councler she really hurt my feelings.

Sneaky Snek

Went to the inpatient program for teens. I voluntarily checked myself in to get my severe OCD and depression treated. This place did NOT help in the slightest. One thing I remember is the little to no care the staff had for patients. So many people were crying or having a breakdown (myself included), and not a single nurse, therapist, or doctor checked on us. I saw a doctor only ONE TIME. When asking to see the doctors, I was always told that they were too busy. When discharged, they told me I was "attention seeking" when it came to my intrusive OCD thoughts or depression. Luckily I was diagnosed by a proper psychologist after leaving the hospital, and surprise surprise, they misdiagnosed me and sent me home with the trauma from seeing other patients in so much pain and a bottle of antidepressants. If you choose to voluntarily admit yourself, this is NOT the right hospital. Steer clear of this hospital if you are looking for actual treatment and plan.

Kimberly Quiles

My mother was here and they do not treat the patients good. These employees should not be able to take advantage of people with mental illness just for fun. This place needs to be thoroughly investigated for the way they treat their patients and visitors. Everyone should be following the same rules. They have video cameras but no audio so that already is bad because things look different on camera and without audio you cannot know how they mistreat their patients. They force their patients to take medication and if they deny medications they threaten them by saying they will sue them. There should be a psychiatrist to evaluate these patients individually and not just groups meetings.

E S

Bret at the front desk was great. He was able to go the extra mile and get me the help I needed. Unfortunately many of us who are coming here are not always in the greatest mindset, and we cannot always get to the mindset we want fast enough. Many of the problems that we as patients have cannot be fixed overnight, but take time and hard work on our part to overcome and better deal with these problems. We often have to change lifelong thinking patterns and sometimes deal with issues that overpower us. We are the keys to our future and are therefore the most important part of our healing process. The doctors can give us therapy, medicine, and advice on how to improve ourselves, but we must actively work on using there advice and therapy to make a change in ourselves.