Rio Vista Behavioral Health's Online Review Report Card

Where do I start? The majority of these hospitals, try to use up the insurance of the Patient and are not concerned about the actual mental welfare of the Patient. Therapy is a worksheet and no real therapy takes place. Patients are locked out of their rooms when they are sleep deprived and desperately need sleep. There are reports of the facility playing horror movies, when patients are depressed, suicidal, or experiencing a mental crisis from friends and family members in the community. Never take a family member in there that is on the spectrum, because they don't understand what on the spectrum means. To them on the spectrum means mental disorder. They will try to push every single type of drug onto your loved one, without crosschecking to see complications. Medical power of attorney attorneys and guardianships are ignored. You have to beg and plead to get information for your loved one. They will record conversations, but will not allow you to record a conversation. They will not return phone calls, emails, or any kind of correspondence legally required of them by law. Emergency detention orders are concocted on voluntary patients when patients realize that they can walk out because they are voluntary. Items left with patients are sometimes given two or three days later or completely lost. Basic items, such as toiletries and scrubs are not given to patients. It's a wonder how these places can be trusted! How do you build trust when the whole community knows how badly they treat their patients? If your loved one is experiencing depression or anxiety, try seeking help holistically and from a private physician first.

wasnt really thaaat bad if im being honest i had cool frikin techs like herman, jocelyn, antonio, and others that i cant remember. it was kinda borin becuase all u do is color with crayons go to group,gym,patio,lunch, and dinner and then stay in the hone room or dayroom but w my techs they made it kinda better. i recommend just dont start beef w no one cuz its pointless.(im bipolor and a 14yr)

My fiancée (Army veteran) was admitted here and they keep lying to him about the date when he’ll be released, they keep pushing it longer and they don’t have a reason for it. We have a 1 year old baby and I need to be able to call him, I called the front desk 11 times NO ANSWER. DO NOT COME HERE!!!

Outpatient therapist ghosted me before even having our first session 😔

Do the H1B psychiatrists here even care about Americans? They take away your phone, your choice of schedule, your freedom to leave, and make you take medication under the implied threat your stay will be longer! Prior to admission, the promise was safety, care, stabilization. But what actually happened felt between a prison and a business. On top of that, all authority is handed over to strangers who aren't even from this country! Like, hello? You don't understand us. The psychiatrist decides whether you are “better” or not, regardless of how you feel. And their providers? Just as bad. Someone ought to revoke their licenses. Enough is ENOUGH.

I’m actually banned from this inpatient facility and I will never go back to it. They are completely understaffed with Doctors that are so undertrained. They have nurses that are scared to speak out against this facility because once they do speak out, they get blacklisted from any other private institution if they were to work at any other private institution

I took my 10yr old son here thinking they would help him but no they took him off his ADHD medication, and doped him up with sedatives. Every time I called to get updated nobody answered me or called back. When we went to visit him he was wearing a bracelet that shocked him Every time he got agitated. I never signed anything saying I consented to that! I also asked during his evaluation if they inject them and they said no, but they do. The age requirements for inpatient is 11yrs old, my son is 10yrs and they were injecting him more than twice a day! When I finally went down there in person to fight and get my son released they threatened me with CPS, which to me I didn't care. I told them "you wanna play fire with fire bring it!" It took me 6hrs to get him released, I yelled, threatened to sue them, just for them to let him out! Dr. Ataala just wants to harshly medicate your children and not let them released! I am talking with lawyers and I am gonna fight with everything I have to advocate for my son! My son is traumatized for what you did to him! You dont rehabilitate you dope them with medication like a bandage so you can bill insurance and so you dont have to help them or deal with them!

I was discharged from this place recently. To anyone thinking of going, Do NOT. Find another place. They love to keep people for long periods of time, and when I asked Dr. Hawke when I will be discharged he said it wasn’t up to him that it was up to Administration. I was in the womens unit. The hospital accepted me as a pregnant patient, with no extra care. I got told by the Patient advocate that I am there to worry about myself, funny because there is a whole other human inside of me. They will give you more and more medicine just to keep you longer. And don’t even think about signing an AMA (against medical advice) they will put you on a EDO immediately. They will not tell you when you are leaving. The food is awful. The units are dirty. And some techs are very rude and disrespectful. I do not recommend anyone going here especially as a pregnant woman I was more stressed in that in environment which caused me to go to the Emergency room due to bleeding caused by stress from this place. Try anywhere else please.

They did not fully finish adjusting my son's meds. He was let go to soon. They claimed there were complaints about him, which were never explained in detail. My son didn't know what they were talking about. The Dr called me and basically said he wouldn't treat him anymore and to go to my regular psychiatrist every other day as if it was possible. So my son has mental problems and the mental hospital couldn't deal with the problems...so unprofessional.

My time in adolescent inpatient, was fun to say the least. I met some amazing king and some caring girls! However the highlight was the techs, I would like to give a shout out to Janet!