Haven Behavioral Hospital of Dayton — Attraction in Dayton

The ENTIRE staff (minus the nurse medication management, meals, activities, and other front line work that isn’t involved in actually treating patients/assisting them with their medication needs) is not only incompetent regarding how to properly treat and provide support to people in need of medical care/support to get back on medications (due to insurance lapses/changes in employment/lack of adequate support for disorder/homelessness/inconsistent finances/any other REASONABLE reason someone might lose care and need to go inpatient for assistance with new doctors and restarting medication), they are also dishonest, incapable of being transparent, self-righteous, and wrongfully judging of those who need care based on FEAR based, illogical, and NARCISSISTIC reasoning, that completely goes against the individuals rights to treatment as a patient.

This place seems like an institution that exists ONLY for the purpose of committing insurance fraud to collect profit for the facility, & to be used as a medium for pharmaceutical companies/big pharma sales reps to bribe doctors with bonuses for pushing & prescribing patients with DANGEROUS PSYCHOTROPIC (anti-psychotics) such as SEROquel.

I was put here after going to Miami Valley Hospital, against my will, because I told the Hospital that I was feeling like I didn’t want to live anymore because I have a pretty severe case of Narcolepsy that I’ve had my whole life, and have no doctors or medical care for after my family in Utah was unable to afford supporting me anymore and I had to move back to Ohio without any help or assistance. I had been without doctors or proper medication for 8 months, with bridge scripts being filled from my doctors in Utah up until amount 2 months ago, and I was in need of emergency care because I havent even been able to get on my own feet since I’ve arrived in Ohio & w/o meds. I cannot get out of bed for more than 20 mins unmedicated or I will have a sleep spell and fall asleep uncontrollably. I CANNOT function without medication for my disorder and because my case is fairly severe, I need a potent amphetamine or my brain is incapable of releasing the orexin from the hypothalamus of my brain that it needs to stimulate wakefulness in the morning and allow me to come out of my brains sleep state, where orexin is then released as a chemical within my entire brain throughout the day which is what’s used to regulate the release of my neurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, histamine, and serotonin. Without something to stimulate me to wakefulness, and then further stimulate my brain to release those neurotransmitters, because narcoleptics are missing approx 80% of our orexin cells, I am completely dysfunctional. Not only am I tired but with such low levels of dopamine being released in my brain, I quickly become extremely depressed, and physically incapable of moving my own body with ease. It’s like being trapped within my own body in a sleep prison.

My stay was 5 days long and I LITERALLY am in THE EXACT SAME POSITION I was in BEFORE I went and checked myself into the hospital...Which, is also practicing outside legal standards regarding a patients rights to chose what they consent and do not consent to regarding medical treatment and is disrespecting a persons free will. In the state of Ohio, in order to be admitted inpatient, they insinuate that it’s necessary for you to claim you are suicidal to be admitted, otherwise they won’t set you up with inpatient care and will send you away with no help. IF YOU SAY YOU ARE SUICIDAL, they will pink slip you, and the hospital is then able to say that you were admitted for care INVOLUNTARILY, which can actually have HUGE negative ramifications on a persons freedoms and rights. Involuntary admissions for psychiatric care can show up on background checks and can be used against you by other outpatient facilities. For this reason I was forced to go to Heaven despite the fact that I told staff I didn’t want to go to a Private Behavioral Health facility, because the Private ones are...

Volenterally admided myself for help with major depression and anxiety disorder. Total stay was 7 days. During my time there, after only 4 days i experienced whatv Haven is truly about. I recieved no type of therapy, counseling or group meetings. They made no effort to adjust my meds & even withheld some of my important psychiatric meds, stating that Haven thought they were to expensive. After being their 4 days i finally got a doctors attention. I told the Doctor that I was not receiving my medications.And I was not receiving any therapy.So I wanted to discharge myself since I walked in voluntarily. So the Doctor decided that since it was a Thursday or Friday that he hadn't made enough money on me. So he pink slipped me. And forced me to stay there in additional 3 days. ( he's part owner too) And then when the three days was up it was a sunday and he refused to send me home on a sunday just because it's sunday. Since they weren't giving me my medications. I was going through some through some withdrawl. I ended up throwing up in the floor of my of my room. I was laying on the bed. I was miserable and one of the nurses walked by and says she would get me a towel. I thought she was going to help me, but she goes and comes back with a pillowcase; Stating she could not find a towel. So she threw the pillowcase at me and told me to clean up. Clean it up. On their television commercials, it shows older people and seniors staying at the center.Receiving help but in reality, 99% of the people in there are in their late teens, early 20s and are sent From jail . Physical fights between Patients ,I even seen a couple between the staff and a patient. The nursing assistants sit around all day with clipboards.It never even speak to the patients unless they're mad about something. And the nurses are clearly annoyed if you ask a question.Or need something. Very much...

I WOULD NOT recommend anyone taking there loved ones to this hospital for “help”.Communication from doctors is non existent. Shelly was as helpful as she could be however the Nurse Ruth with the African accent was very combative and extremely rude, terrible phone etiquette and showed no compassion. She refused to name the DON when asked to speak to her superior, she was not knowledgeable on policies regarding if covid testing was administered to my loved one at admission. It’s disturbing that a HOSPITAL would keep someone with her disposition on there staff she made me extremely uncomfortable that my loved one was in her care. I was promised a call from Dr. Tyson that never happened , no explanation on how my loved one was diagnosed. My loved one was medicated without a clear understanding of there diagnosis. Please DO NOT voluntarily admit yourself. I have strong regret for convincing my loved one to seek treatment here and pray that they are not traumatized from having to stay at such a dreadful place. Please I encourage all who may have someone that they love who need mental health treatment stay away from this place... In All fairness I did speak with the patient advocate and she was extremely nice and tried to ease my mind as best she could but it did not alleviate my concerns about the quality of treatment that was being provided. NEVER AGAIN... I would be willing to walk a 1k miles with my loved one on my back to another facility before this one would ever...