This review was chosen algorithmically as the most valued customer feedback. Next thin I know, EMS was a my door and took me to Northside Hospital. They will tell you we arent asking. Grady recently opened an outpatient mental health clinic on Auburn Avenue, a few blocks from the hospital campus. No materials from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. Calls to numbers dedicated to specific provider listings will be routed to that provider. Restraints often give one a black eye and swollen face. DO NOT SEND A LOVED ONE TO PEACHFORD! Dr. Ummed should be fired. I begged them to take me to another place, but Peachford saw that I had great insurance and before the doctor ever saw me, he insisted on five days of treatment What they do not tell you is that Sundays and holidays do not count as one of your days. But at some point, you get tired of asking. Then, due to a lack of beds, his case summary said, Barrow ultimately chose to send the patient home without any treatment.. I was trying to safely take myself off antidepressants that were making me suicidal. In short, I brought my 87 year old Father there for observation, and after refusing the 1010 form, and observing their horrible operating procedures, I tried to leave. Please DO NOT add attachments that contain your or other peoples personal information, if you dont want it to be visible to the public. The form was very vague so im sure alot of parents signed it thinking they had to. 0000005086 00000 n He also gave me meds that he never told me about. I am looking for an attorney to sue. 12-Step offshoots including Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) and Gamblers Anonymous (GA). After overdosing on the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, Erica W. went to the emergency room at Emory Eastside Medical Center in Snellville on June 5. It was her incompetence, and that of the receptionist, and the neglect of the doctor who abandoned my new patient appointment to go run personal errands, that landed me in there. Alan Judd is an investigative reporter for the AJC. Peachford Hospital takes patient privacy seriously. Please everyone else needs to contact them. So I didn't have a name. I'm ready to SUE! But then the state hospital delayed transporting Elizabeth; she ended up spending 116 hours, or almost five full days, in the emergency room. My son was admitted to Peachford Hospital on November 3, 2015 with severe depression and suicidal ideation. FYI : CCHR IS a Scientology front shop. He stayed 72 hours. I would never wish his place on my worst enemy DO NOT GO TO PEACHFORD! My Parkinson's meds where withheld. www.dch.georgia.gov [protected], I tried to Call Ms.Barbara several times and keep getting her voicemail; I've stopped trying to go into in-patient when need be; I'm trying to get into the Riverwoods PHP program down in Riverdale; Heard it was good, WE AS A GROUP NEED TO STOP THE ABUSE AT THIS MENTAL HOSPITAL. WebPeachford Hospital provides mental health and chemical dependency treatment to Atlanta and the Southeast. From being physically assaulted by hospital staff, which left me bruised and in excruciating pain. I was there at the end of January for 8 days. it was pretty serious. It was cold at night the blankets were thin and they told us when to go outside and when to use the restroom. The bathroom showers were actually made of granite during my stay there and I have never eaten a better chocolate cake or tilapia ANYWHERE else. We have no in-house beds available holding in the [emergency department]., The next day, the Medical College of Georgia, also in Augusta, posted its own warning: We are on adult psych diversion until further notice.. He was admitted to the Regional Hospital in Athens, Ga on Tuesday October 3rd around 5 pm. ComplaintsBoard.com is a leading complaint resolution website on the Internet. For 2 days I felt like we, the patients, were part of someone's experiment on how treating patients nicely in comparison to treating them horribly affects the patients behavior. On And the only way that we found out that he had passed them out is because one of the patients started acting erratically, the director can be heard saying on the call. Unfortunately when the large black man that beat and raped me did so he didn't introduce himself. Physiotherapist, lost job and marriage close to a divorce. Georgia law requires the state to provide or pay for hospital treatment for psychiatric patients who need it, said Crouch, the Peachford executive. After six days in the emergency room, where she received no psychiatric treatment, Samantha returned home on May 28. Rehab.com is not a healthcare services provider or treatment facility and does not provide medical advice of any kind. The metro Atlanta mother is directing her anger toward the mental health facility her teenage son is being treated at. After several Dr. Vaughn called me, he was polite and he told me that he would prescribe him meds and he would keep him one more day. It didn't work. Also, staff stole half of the things I left for my sister. At Peachford Hospital, our aim is to help our patients heal mentally and emotionally. We offer inpatient and outpatient treatment services tailored to each individuals needs. By working with the patient and their family, our mental health professionals provide strategies that assist them in the recovery process. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics. Peachford Hospital specializes in the treatment of dual diagnosis. In reality, Grady keeps psychiatric patients two to three times longer, on average, than Georgia Regional, and the state hospital rarely accepts Gradys patients, anyway. Probably both. Follow him on Twitter @alanjudd3000. It was only after November 9, when he was released that he told me what he had experienced during intake. peach ford hospital was not helpful to me or my family either they didnt help us they told my mom i wasnt sick that i was stable the doctors there have poor quality training and they give u shots sometimes for no reason they dont k what they are doing i think they should get shut down and never open agian they treat the patients like dogs like they arent human i had to go to another hospital i said i was well i really wasnt i hated it there no one gets cured and the ones who say they do probaly dont they probably just say it to get out of there! The story gets much worse, but the bottom line is my impression of Peachford is not that great. Since she was a new patient she was not allowed to leave her room until she saw the doctor. Don't tell people, "you got into this mess and they are there to put you in your place and teach you right from wrong." This hospital caused more trauma and stress to my child and to me. In theory, Grady can send patients to Georgia Regional/Atlanta for longer-term treatment. At the recommendation of my child's psychiatrist we took her to Peachford due to depression. These people need to be stopped. A lovely patient who saw what happened stepped forward to help me up and he pushed her back and snapped someone that size is going to break your back! Eventually I found the grit to push myself back up on my hands but with no help from anyone at that hospital. Florida residents may also want to visit: MyFLFamilies.com. 0000003531 00000 n Georgia Regional Hospital/Atlanta agreed the following day to admit her but would not actually allow her to transfer until June 8, after 65 hours in the emergency room. It took me to talk to a doctor to get a minimum of aftercare. ! are common as emergency rooms deal with greater demand by psychiatric patients. %PDF-1.4 % State officials disputed that characterization. Poorly run facility. WebElderly mother was checked in voluntarily for side effects related to Parkinson's disease and treatment. We finally had to get the insurance company to say they would refuse to pay for me to stay another day, and magically, they said I was ready to be let out. Worst of all they recommended she put a sheet or a pillow case on her head instead! Like many other reviews, being treated as criminals is so accurate. WebPeachford Hospital Overview Overview 98 Reviews 23 Jobs 81 Salaries 5 Interviews 24 Benefits 16 Photos View Jobs at Peachford Hospital Peachford Hospital Overview Website: www.peachford.com Headquarters: Dunwoody, GA Size: 501 to 1000 Employees Founded: 1973 Type: Hospital Industry: Healthcare Services & Hospitals Revenue: $25 to $50 GA And so I couldnt believe that they would just leave the kids unsupervised for any period of time, the mother said. Some of the most disturbing allegations in Georgia are connected to Peachford Hospital, a mental health facility in Dunwoody. The sleeping arrangements were horrible. Emory was great though and I appreciate the treatment I received from them. They attribute it to Georgias effort to shift from a mental health system dominated by a few regional in-patient institutions to a more diffuse one based on treating patients in their communities. There was only one for the 40+ patents, and it was perpetually covered in vomit, blood and diarrhea, all caused by forced discontinuation of drugs you were on, reactions to new medications, and Womens monthly periods, and some patients had HIV, so that put the rest of the patients at risk. Peachford Hospital - Georgia - investigtion thread. I saw firsthand the treatment of patients. I talked to an anonymous source who was recently sent to an emergency mental health facility called Peachford Hospital in Dunwoody, GA. My friend was having suicidal ideations, and the hospital concluded that they were in need of help from an emergency facility. I myself already disliked peachford bc the staff was rude and hearing the stories my son told. Shop; Travel; Watch; Read I could have died. The additional costs, health care executives said, reflect longer waits for transfers to state hospitals. 0000008282 00000 n It is the biggest fraud I have ever seen. Located in the beautiful Dunwoody neighborhood of Atlanta, Peachfords facilities feature individual units for children, adolescents, adults and seniors, serving residents of Georgia and beyond. At Peachford, our team of professionals are passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients. Hope is what drives us. The number of state hospital beds is not going to do anything but go down, he said. Georgia Department of Community And the irony is if you are raped in Georgia the only program is at Grady. Thats not optimal. Emory was never contacted. Number one rule for depression, addiction etc. The doctor's, Social Worker, nurses and staff were all aware of this and when I would go to the extremely rude Medication Nurse "June" she would YELL "You Ain't Gonna Reject This Soon Now Go SIT DOWN". Still, many psychiatric patients enter Grady through its emergency room by ambulance, in police cars, on foot. Never ever put your child here. This type of behavior happened all night, every night, every 15 minutes. F.U.Dr.G.F. At Barrow Regional Medical Center in Winder, patient Patrick E. came to the emergency room that Friday. In the phone recording, the director told the parents they had kicked out the patient who brought the drugs into the facility, and notified Dunwoody police of the incident. The first day, they treated us extremely well. I did not understand the necessity of being so demeaning. Administrative Investigation Failure to Follow VA Policy VA Medical Center Washington, DC . This experience has set him back terribly, I believe largely due to the trauma caused by the degradation and memory he is now trying to deal with. I was so sleep deprived and pumped with unnecessary drugs that I was zombified. Peachtree Mental Hospital is a very scary place to be. please email me at whymrry1@yahoo.com if you have any questions or information. Thanks. We just have to make sure we manage it in a way that we dont have people falling through the cracks.. Its not enough. Regular patients, though, often bypass both the outpatient clinic and the emergency room, Green said. My friend and her sister went there I dont wanna say why but it was a horrible experience for them but ever since she been she has been woundering who "rip julie" is. I posted on her 6 months ago about my 83 year old grandma and her breaking a hip there. Although we were assured our child would be allowed to catch up on sleep we discovered she was woken up with the rest of the unit at 7:30AM. His words were I dont have time as he looked at his watch, even though I was supposed to get a meeting with him every day.,He just said again that he didnt have time, which was his excuse for most of the days I was there. 95 0 obj <> endobj Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare. Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). So if I was a risk to myself as his nurse claimed I was, why did he then neglect me completely once I was in there? B. Brooke O of Lawrenceville, US. Everyone that is posting here needs to file a complaint on Peachford Behavioral Health system of Atanta I get lock up because I got angry with my new health insurance on the phone and they think I am going to [censored]. My brother received a black eye, allegedly from, falling out of a chair. V)gB0iW8#8w8_QQj@&A)/g>'K t;\ $FZUn(4T%)0C&Zi8bxEB;PAom?W= I will NEVER go back to this place. When I went to the nursing station, I questioned her on ever med. I asked to talk to a doctor before he was discharged. Imagine the horror I feel for all of the other prisoners that were in there with me and they may be sick now and will never be notified? Wilson, the spokesman for the behavioral health agency, said what emergency rooms are experiencing amounts to bumps in the road., Over time, he said, thats going to work itself out.. It wasnt until June 8 82 hours after Richards commitment that a crisis unit in Cobb County accepted him. Having suffered the worse night of my life, the next morning I was hyperventilating, the pain was so bad I was close to fainting, and I couldnt feel my face because it had gone numb, and I collapsed. ALERT! If some one is depressed this will further their addiction and illness .I have a grandson that was admitted there a few days ago and if i find this is true with him you can bet on it something will be done, because i will stand on every government desk until it is done. To all who read this DO NOT GO TO PEACHFORD HELL! 95 19 In its motion, Peachford Hospital argued I am NOT depressed! :lYNDl#ca&EAE!m,h^'{ivC%=F38!|wN70}\'W{31'zNk5G7c4;I!l`!af ![ \68Wg[Dh@ekpJEW0qIexw[R1 R+Bj+.ywmX9Sm$/Y\ ` $p Yes, to all above complaints. I am a healthy eater and a vegetarian. Richard P. was distraught. They treat patients like criminals. Like the previous patient stated above, "If you weren't crazy before you went in, you would be when you left." 0000004584 00000 n He did no care. Theres nowhere else for them to go, Green said. I am thankful to no longer be at Peachford. I was basically told to "deal with it." The Joint Commission, formerly known as JCAHO, is a nonprofit organization that accredits rehab organizations and programs. A few other people pace the length and width of this room, a temporary observation area on the 13th floor of Grady Memorial Hospital: the psychiatric ward. It does seem odd to me that Peachford Hospital discharged my son without his meds, without communicating with me how difficult it would be to find these meds and absolutely NO CONCERN that he would be almost 48 hours without taking his meds, which very well could send him into withdrawals. wiki researcher. I was drinking one night and said the wrong thing. Such reports under a heading that says, ALERT! A nightmare from the minute we walked in the doors until discharge 4 days later. First, people don't ask to be mentally ill. Would you tell a cancer patient that they got themselves into this mess? 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On the positive note, I am now willing to go to any length to treat the depression and symptoms that took me to Peachford. Some get no more than a chair to sit through the delay. Over a year and my life is shattered and I want to die every day. However, like about two dozen others, it pays Peachford to assess psychiatric patients in its emergency room and find appropriate places for their treatment. Few patients receive psychiatric care in the emergency rooms. Did you ever find an attorney? WE ALL NEED TO PLACE A COMPLAINT. Was not given anti rejection medications until after missing 6 doses for a newly transplanted cadaver organ. Run! It is 2 months later and, like i stated, I'm still waking up with vivid nightmares that I am in THAT PLACE. Kid running and them hiding shanks etc but I am writing these sitting with my son waiting tosee a psyciatrist and realized that peach has given me the wrong follow up for. Featured review. ALTHOUGH I do not regret the stay AT ALL. Dunwoody, As far as the nurses/counselors - they treated us like criminals. Shouldnt it be their responsibility to know what their patients go through in a place they send them to? I see my comments were removed. If you have no mental illness, as you say, then you shouldn't be there just to get away from your parents. Could be they don't care, or could be they don't know what they are doing. n3kGz=[==B0FX'+tG,}/Hh8mW2p[AiAN#8$X?AKHI{!7. Drug Rehab | Alcohol Treatment | Dual Diagnosis, 1455 Lincoln Parkway Suit, We arrived at 7:45PM and it wasn't until 2:45AM the next morning that our child was assigned a room. Its decreasing the size of the target on their backs, Crouch said. 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