Summit Oaks Hospital

I’ve had many interactions with the mental health industry but this by far is the worst place I’ve ever gone to. there are tho many misconceptions with psych wards. the real work is done outside with a licensed therapist. not within the walls of a psych ward. especially this one. they solely exist just to make sure you don’t harm yourself or others, or at least try to in a way. then let you back out once the overworked single psychologist deems you fit enough to re enter society.parents tho, you have the power to refuse sending your child to certain hospitals and places for psychiatric purposes. and please do your research before sending you or your loved ones to one.

abuse, the whole troubled teen industry is glorified abuse, a glorified concentration camp for the mentally ill this place is and many others as well. do not for any reason send you or your child here. find actual therapy.to start off it’s a one size fits all place. which causes more harm than good. fights break out all the time because of it. heavy sedatives they inject you with along with restraints. on top of heavy random medications to make you drowsy. mariam bekhit has no clue at what she is doing as well as the other people who work here. I can tell they just hire anyone with no training at all. in the adolescent unit there was a 5 year old and a 18 year old mixed together, all sorts of ages in the same unit. the staff pick on and degrade the patients calling them all sorts of names treating others differently they pick and choose on who they want to be kind to. they withhold certain information from both parents and the kids, attack therapy, you have to tell everyone the reason on what brought you here and whatever else they will want you to share everyone which should not be shared. withholding basic human rights from the patients like food, water, etc.. you can only get it at certain times. or only when the staff feels like giving it out to everybody, no privacy at all, you share a room with a random person hoping for them not to attack you because you don’t know what they are capable of. 15 minute room checks 24/7. it gets hard to sleep in the nighttime when somebody is shining a bright flashlight every 15 minutes, 5 minute phone calls that are monitored. they keep you here longer than you should. always finding a reason to keep you longer.this place made me even more suicidal then when I got here, and when I left.doing all that and profiting off of the mentally ill in the process.

went here back in 2019 of april/may when I was 13 now I’m 16 still traumatized from this place.they put me here “voluntary” but nothing here is voluntary when you get there. they hold you against your will until they themselves deem you “all better”. and put you back into society with no support system after you leave here. I lost 10-20 pounds in the span of the 15 days I was here all they feed me here was slop but then expect you to eat it and watch what you do and don’t eat and when I threw it out the staff had to check it and if I didn’t eat it all i had to sit down until I did. the so called “doctor” here Mariam bekhit isn’t any help either. she does not care trust me. all the time she had with was 5 minutes or less and the place we had to talk was on the side of the room where everyone else was. so kids and everyone could listen in on our conversation and what I was going trough at that time. then she put me onto these random meds at the time I was there forgot the same. but even tho them I couldn’t take capsules they still put me onto meds with the capsule forms only then I told my mom and she told them I couldn’t take that form they switched it to liquid. the meds didn’t even do anything either. I think it was fluoxetine or something I believe. the med placement was so random. they put you onto some random meds and then expect you to get better right there and then. if you don’t take the meds they hold you down against your will and make you take it. so I literally didn’t have any other choice but to comply and just take the meds they gave me. staff was not with what going on in some instances. kids threw those plastic chairs at each other always at each other’s throat the people in the unit I was in. always having to call a certain code number 48 or something I believe it’s called. I forgot it sorry. surprised it was age 5 to 21 in the “teens/kids” unit forgot the number but yeah all sorts of ages in that unit. it’s a one size fits all unit and that isn’t helpful in the slightest at all. it just makes things worse as it is here. no freedom at all but when we did go outside we were watched by all the older older people not in our unit but pretty old men and woman smoking watching over us kind of like guinea pigs in a glass outside window place idk. it was all blocked out the outside place and we could only go for a certain amount of time I believe only 30 minutes a day. that also did not help in the slightest. also staff in the nighttime has to shine these flashlights EVERY 15 minutes. so it was also hard to sleep. and I had a roommate I did not know at all. thinking she was going to harm me any given moment. we had “group” therapy had to go around and say what brought you here. that was kind of not necessary? in a way. did not help at all. also a “homework” period. parents could only see us a few days a week like every other day I remember? but only for like 30 minutes. even then tho in a way wasn’t that good staff had to stand over you almost every minute listening to your conversation. and if not a camera would be watching your every given moment. beds where hard as a rock only one pillow and a thin blanket. thank god I didn’t go there in the winter time. but that brings me to another instance. they woke all of us up at around 2 am. the whole unit adults, teens, kids. having us stand in the cold for a little while because somebody pulled the fire alarm for whatever reason and they didn’t know who. only to find out later that it was a kid who did it on purpose for whatever reason i still don’t know till this day. and those were the only far and few instances I remember from this stay as of right now.

If there was an option for negative stars,I would have checked that. My daughter went to Summit Oaks for detox and rehab, she was extremely sick for 4 days, the "nursing" staff showed no compassion or caring at all. She laid in her own vomit for 8 hours before they finally brought her a basin to throw up in. She was mocked and laughed at when she begged them to call a doctor to get her some comfort meds. She was supposed to be there 21 days, I brought her out after 4, sick and dehydrated and no care from the staff. Anyone who has a loved one in need of help, find somewhere else to send them!

I spent over two years locked away on the adolescent unit years ago without a clear reason ever given. I missed out on education, sats, having friends or a relationship with my sibling & grandparents while they were alive so this place could cash in on Champus deer benefits right up until I came of age. Kids in for profit psych hospitals have less rights & protections than kids in juvenile corrections & less support than kids who age out of foster.

Worst experience of my life voluntarily checking myself in. Feel free to email me as I will also be making a call to someone high on the chain.