Sundown M Ranch | Rehab Center in Yakima, WA — Local services in Selah

I am leaving this comment as a licensed healthcare professional of 6 years. Looks and sales pitch do not equal recovery and success. Medication room is not open as scheduled – Failure to Provide Care, Staff Not Available to Provide Care. Patients have been noted as being placed on medications inappropriate to the substance they are withdrawing from – Providing the Wrong Care. Counselors frequently verbally speak to patients, whom are clearly in a fragile state, beyond rudeness – which the patients themselves have defined as descriptors which belong to ‘mentally harmful’ and ‘misleading’. Patients themselves often expressing how counselors and supervisors speak to them as significantly detrimental to all the initial and intermediate successes needed for them to attain full sobriety. Therefore many of the counselors and their superiors at this facility abuse their position of authority and control over inpatients – verbalizing to them significantly detrimental and defeating opinions {unprofessional conduct}, instead of adhering to the educational material and guidelines and the expected and professional conduct of licensed chemical dependency professionals which would be to foster honesty from patients while being positive, considerate and supportive. The counselors and supervisors at this facility do not take any responsibility for the unprofessional mentally harmful, misleading, defeating, inflexible behaviors the majority practices here – they do not even practice the honesty they expect from patients, which is further unprofessional conduct. I truly believe these forms of unprofessional conduct at a Residential Inpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Center places patients at significant increased risk for relapse, which therefore can be construed as improper application of services paid for by insurance as well as privately by individuals. I also believe these forms of unprofessional conduct at a Residential Inpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Center increase patients risk of suicide. I would not be surprised to find that few of their counselors have taken Suicide Prevention training. If they have, I’d determine many of them negligent in applying it or simply do not do so because there is no responsible oversight in regards to unprofessional conduct within this facility. Counselors and staff with authority over patients are evaluating patients and speaking to them based on mentally-harmful, misleading opinion. Also the educational materials used are extremely outdated and the food is definitely not by any means nutritious. Personal counseling sessions are not offered in place of group sessions if and when some patients find specific sessions and topics to be too triggering for them. It is frequently reported that patients are abusing drugs they have smuggled in to the facility and if a patient whom had been placed as a roommate with someone whom has smuggled in narcotics, the facility refuses to move the patient whom has reported it as they do not want to be forced in to remain in a position to relapse. For the financial costs of this facility and the high cost of detrimental, unprofessional, mentally harmful and misleading care to the patients, all of these issues that are commonly at Sundown M Ranch are completely...

I am that I am and I have been guided by a very strong heart and her desire for others in the right hand of that one true relationship with just one and only one. And I had the pleasure of having my heart broken by a world but then again it wasn’t a good thing that hurt my heart was not knowing me and I had to become that one who stands by being given the praise that baby infants child had deserved to receive love from others is to become that love for anyone who has been broken by a person, place or thing and hurt ourself to make others hurt for our very selfish reasons and it was another person who in turn made to the other side of things and their own life stood there having been lost not having known it’s one way not two other lives that have also mattered but did they? So thank you SunDown for bringing UP MY PAIN AND SUFFERING IN A WAY THAT LEAD ME TO MY RIGHTSIDE OF BEING BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAVING BEEN GIVEN A WAY I ASK THAT THE VERY FIRST BEING TO ENTER A PLACE WAS THE FIRST THING I DIDNT LIKE WAS THE NOT KNOWING WHAT WHEN IT WAS MORE LIKE WHO THEN WHAT IS THE WHERE AND WHEN THE WHY, I AM THE ONE WHO IS and always will be loved by me and I who is the only person I need in place of that one thing being that who in the whole of me and not just the one who had been there before me and that was the physical being human and the other one being spirit wasn’t there for the right person to see me as I failed me that was the only one who was not me? So the other person who was the one who got me and the one who is my friend and best friends at that is another living persons heart and the place is the physical presence in one’s sight but not my own heart is the life of one person great is the good in our lives but no matter what happens know what happens to me is the who and what is the where and when as to one’s why that is the most precious person of our whole being our one and only person in a whole life that is or wasnt right but didn’t mean our first day wasnt our last but me as I am that infant child, love born anew, thanks to you, SunDown M. Ranch for your service support and most of all the first day of our journey to our new self love is our matter of being loved by one is our new day birthday present is the gift of life, love and joy to live it wholesome you are so loved by one person who loves you in place of one thing? BEING! (Love) and all that you are for those who made it through this journey to the other side of our very known being that first day of our life and it is written! So be loved by knowing...

I'd definitely recommend Sundown M Ranch for anyone suffering from chemical dependency, who is able to go.

The approach, curriculum and overall program is similar to many in-patient treatment programs from my experience. I'm guessing the standard curriculum and format doesn't change too much from center to center in the state .

Where Sundown excels however is with their family program, as well as their physical facilities.

The family and codependent/affected are very significant aspects of anyone's addiction, and Sundown places the most emphasis on repairing these dynamics that I've seen. They provide a standard 3-day program for family members to come stay on the campus while they're given a rare chance to start working on themselves and a healthier relationship.

The facilities themselves are another reason it's so easy to appreciate Sundown. Located in sunny, beautiful Yakima in a flat valley, near rustic train tracks and a river you can constantly hear, the picturesque scene is very healing in it of itself. Grounds are well kept by full time garden pros and cleaning staff, and the facilities feel clean!.

I've only seen one incident of someone having drugs in here, which was taken are of. Unfortunately, it's not very uncommon at all to find drugs in a treatment facility. But I noticed it does happen a lot less in places like this, where patients are there voluntarily. Even if one were to come across drugs, I believe they would be better suited to handle the situation here. This is a safe place.

One thing I would suggest improving would be access to actual 12-step meetings while there, or education regarding basic 12-step school of thought and etiquette? I understand that we must be mindful of traditions, and that it is impossible to to "teach" AA in any short amount of time. But I do believe it's important that people learn what AA, NA, CA etc. are actually about during this crucial phase of recovery, before they get comfortable, and decide to be contempt prior to investigation, or make decisions based on misinformation or simple lack of information, which happens too often.

Some of the staff, esp the house managers, seem like they could be under qualified for what the patients seem to think they're there for, but this seems only to be a simple misunderstanding. Overall the staff here seem like...