Bellevue Hospital-Psychiatry — Local services in New York

Great experience. Pros Lots of nurses that really care about the wellbeing of the patients.

Daily Routine which really helped me with my recovery.

Groups like Art therapy, yoga, sobriety , anger management, addressing your feeling, coping skills .all very informative and insightful.

I had my own room. (Not everyone does)

they provide you with clean sheets, clean pajamas every single day.

They provided me with medication. And asked for feedback and really worked with your needs. The medication really helped me

I spoke to a doctor and therapist almost every day. Daily check ups

We were fed three times a day. Full meals that really filled you up. I am vegetarian and lactose intolerant and they gave me a special meal plan. (Lots of others had meal preferences as well and got the same treatment)

When the doctors and therapist and everyone else decides it’s time for you to leave. They give you 30days of medication They help you find housing They will place you in different programs based on your individual needs so you can continue getting Help when you leave

When I was released I was placed in a shelter. I am in a program that I go to 3 times a week They set me up with a therapist, social worker and a psychiatrist I’m scheduled to see every 30 days to fill my prescription I didn’t have insurance and they signed me up for Medicaid (which payed for everything and pays for all of these programs, I believe most insurance will. I’m not sure honestly but Medicaid is paying for everything.

Visitors can come from I believe 2-4 ( I’m not sure ) but I had a visitor and he brought me books it was nice.

Cons

They check up on you every 15 minutes. So if you are in your room a nurse will poke their heads in every 15 min to make sure you are ok. I know this is for good but it did make me feel alittle annoyed

The lounge tv is super blurry

All of the windows are really blurry and you cannot really see outside

You are locked in and can’t leave as a patient. After being there for so many days it does start to feel like you’ve abandoned the outside world all together. Which is good and bad

Some of the patients are alittle “out there” ( it is a phyc ward lol) . Some of them fight some of them scream

There’s a lot of down time and since the tv sucks there tends to not really be anything to do. (I recommend books)

Boring

Conclusion. My stay here has helped me immensely. I had lots of time to think lots of time to speak about my feelings reflect on my emotions and decision. The medication is working. The outpatient program is amazing and keeping me on the right track. I’ve only been out of then ward for two weeks now. I stayed for a total of 16 days. (Depends on individual needs how long you will stay) I am very thankful for the staff the nurses are amazing. This is a great place to be if you need help. I am still reaping the benefits today. I am not 100% healed, not even close. I still have a lot of work to do but I have an amazing support system that this ward has curated for me. I hope in the future I am healed of my mental illness or inspite of my illness I reach all of my goals and I am truly proud...

I spent two weeks in the 21 North Adolescent Inpatient Unit this year. I want to share some of my experiences with the child & adolescent psychiatry program to hopefully give people an understanding of what it’s like:

The staff are excellent. The doctors and nurses provide top-notch care. They offer visiting hours twice a day. This may surprise some people, but not all pediatric psych units let parents see their kids daily. Some only allow visitation once a week. Being able to see my family every day made a big difference for me. They have an excellent understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders and work very well with kids who have autism and co-occurring mental health issues. Unfortunately, I still would not consider it a suitable environment for kids on the spectrum because it is very loud, and the lights are very bright. If it weren't for the harsh sensory atmosphere, I wouldn't have had to transfer to another facility as quickly as I did. The facility needs to be more sanitary. When they brought me to my room, vomit was all over the windows. The floors were sticky and gross. A lot of the food is gross, but they let patients pick out their meals from a menu, so we could always pick out something we liked, like chicken fingers or pizza. They allow personal snacks to be stored in snack bins and the refrigerator and accessed at any time. I found this incredibly helpful because I have trauma with food being restricted in inpatient/residential facilities. They have school on the unit, but I could not attend because they did not have the resources to accommodate my 504 plan. I require assistive technology for typing and spell check (I cannot write with a pencil due to a severe fine motor skills deficit, and I have a language disorder). I can only complete schoolwork with my 504 accommodations, so I rarely had anything to do during the day besides the infrequent but often fun recreational groups.

Bellevue isn't a great place to be, but having been to eight pediatric psych wards and residential treatment facilities across the country, I can attest that it's still one of the best. I don't think parents should ever send their children away, but if they have to send them somewhere, Bellevue is...

I was a patient in the Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit(21 North). I was recorded by a staff named Kenny who still works there, and mind you nobody should be recorded in there, like ever, which is why us patients are not allowed to have our phones. He invaded my privacy, and should've suffered from the consequences . He's also the same staff member that was trying to get with a patient who was a MINOR and even went through her personal files to try to get her phone number. It's disgusting. It makes me so uncomfortable that there might be other patients that might have to deal with him and his inappropriate behavior. Also this unit has many staff members who mocks and talks bad about the patients. It's very unacceptable. They obviously don't care about their jobs at all. They need to replace many staff members with new ones that would actually treat the patients good and with respect because this is not okay. A lot of us patients already feel bad about ourselves, and to have staff like that, it makes us feel even worse. The only good thing about this unit was the doctors, therapists, and...